Hey r/Supabase! 👋
I just submitted a feature request on the Supabase GitHub Discussions and would love your support/upvotes if this resonates with you.
**The Problem:**
Your Supabase database goes down while you're away from your device — sleeping, traveling, no laptop nearby — and there's no way to restart it remotely via API. You have to manually log into the dashboard, which isn't always possible.
**The Feature Request:**
A secure, authenticated Management API endpoint to restart, start, or stop your database remotely. Something like:
`POST /v1/projects/{ref}/database/restart`
Scoped to project owners, rate-limited, and fully auditable. Plus an auto-restart option so the DB can heal itself without any manual action.
Similar restart/redeploy APIs already exist on Railway and Render — would love to see Supabase have this too!
👉 GitHub Discussion: https://github.com/orgs/supabase/discussions/44544
If this is something you've needed too, please drop a 👍 on the discussion — the more upvotes it gets, the more likely the Supabase team will prioritize it. Thanks!
A user has requested a feature for a secure, authenticated API endpoint to remotely restart or manage a Supabase database. This would allow users to handle database issues without accessing the dashboard, especially useful when away from a device. The request is inspired by similar features on platforms like Railway and Render.
Even after reading the problem, I’m still not sure I understand the use case for restarting your database?
When db health has issues due to overload you must restart it to clean the problems and for it to get healthy again