My chatflows are deleting / not being found after a while. Paying in Render to deploy. Please help!

[camilordg96]

Hi all, I deployed FLowise through render.com and am paying the $7 dollar starter. I create the chatflows and after a couple of minutes (30 let's say) the flows are deleted. Has this happened to anyone, any advice?

[camilordg96]

this is the error I'm getting: Failed to retrieve chatflow: Chatflow c427a9fb-edc3-4d99-a39f-241c780f3e88 not found

[og56802409819745]

i have the same issue, if i will manage to fix it, i will text it here

[og56802409819745]

Founded sollution on flowise discord: Railway and Render are ephemeral, everything is wiped after redeploy, so remember to export your database first before redeploy!

[marius-smg]

Hey, maybe a stupid question, but what do you mean by export database before redeploy? As i understand, i dont know at which time render resets, so redeployment is unintentional. What exactly do you mean by database? the Database (in my case on pinecone) is not affacted by that. It's just the chatflows that get wiped after render resets.

[AutoAlchemists]

Did you manage to resolve? have the same exact issue

[Kvkthecreator]

yea, you have to update git commit to latest one and re-connect all your workflows unfortunately. It seems it was a bug resolved with the latest update

[tejaswiniallikanti]

But does it happen when I do it in local?

[janjarco]

I have similar issue working with Azure. After about 15 minutes I cannot access my chat flows, they are just deleted. It works well on local machine

[Kvkthecreator]

i have exact same issue. (both on Azure, and on github codespaces) :(
hopefully someone can find solution, as a temp workaround i'm saving my chatflows / database as backups.
it sucks cuz i have to reconnect my APIs everytime.

[tejaswiniallikanti]

Yes, it works fine in local. The vector database doesnt change, but the chatflows get deleted. I want to you use the chatflows APIs in other application and I am not able to do it.

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[tejaswiniallikanti]

So presently, how are you deploying it? You are updating the APIs all the time?

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On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 11:33 AM Kvkthecreator ***@***.***> wrote: i have exact same issue. (both on Azure, and on github codespaces) :( hopefully someone can find solution, as a temp workaround i'm saving my chatflows / database as backups. it sucks cuz i have to reconnect my APIs everytime. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#232 (reply in thread)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ADMOZM2UX3AOB47MM72BKF3XMKFEVANCNFSM6AAAAAAYUWOJPY> . You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: ***@***.***>

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[HenryHengZJ]

In the latest v1.2.13 release, you can specify an env DATABASE_PATH. This will allow you to specify where the data is being stored. And using Render's Disk, you can mount that path and have persistent storage.

Here's the step by step guide - https://docs.flowiseai.com/deployment/render#persistent-disk

Let us know if that resolves the issue