I have some HTTP nodes setup on bluemix nodeRED to forward some basic messages to a MQTT broker.
Today i noticed that the messages had stopped on December the 10th. i went to my bluemix account and node red was stopped. i restarted it and hope things will start to work again.
The logs didn't go back more than 1 day so i cannot discover why it was stopped.
Is it meant to keep running continuously or is it meant to stop. im on the free plan BTW.
I had the same problem with an instance using MQTT and thought it has something to do with to many MQTT messages. But 10 days ago I setup a new Node-Red App instance and today I discovered that it stopped running and the flow only had one http Request running once per day and a node-red-dashboard. I'm also using the Lite plan as a student and my memory limit is set to 256 MB which should prevent exceeding the free limit. Have you found a reason for the stops?
You'd need to look at the full application log to see if its something in the app causing the stoppage - such as running out of memory - or if its the platform stopping the app.
I vaguely remember some restrictions in place for lite account apps that have no developer activity on them - although I can't find any docs on that front. I have asked internally to see if anyone can shed any light on it.
Many thanks for fast reply @knolleary.
I'll get the logs and post here ASAP.
I'm tinkering with it pretty much on a daily basis so I don't think it relates to absence of developer activity.
OK - I'll post the logs and look forward to any info you get internally.
Sincere thanks again, KRs
I've found the docs that detail the limitations of the lite account: IBM Cloud Docs
After 10 days of no development activity, your apps go to sleep. You can wake up your apps by continuing to work on them.
After 30 days of no development activity, your service instances with Lite plans are deleted.
The important distinction here is that using Node-RED and hitting Deploy is invisible to the platform - it doesn't know anything about Node-RED, so that doesn't count as "development activity".
Thanks again @knolleary
Clear as can be there on that IBM Cloud link - but I hadn't quite twigged that deploying didn't 'count' so to speak... but understand now and it makes sense.
Time to upgrade to PAYG!
Completely love Node-RED so huge thanks for this incredible tool.