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Urgent: Outbound HTTP requests from actions failing with tunnel error

🪲Bug Report

All outbound HTTP requests from Convex actions to api.stripe.com are failing with:

error sending request for url (https://api.stripe.com/v1/billing/meter_events): client error (Connect): tunnel error: unsuccessful

error sending request for url (https://api.stripe.com/v1/billing/meter_events): client error (Connect): tunnel error: unsuccessful

This is blocking production billing -- we cannot report usage meter events to Stripe for any customer. Both our production and development deployments are affected. No code changes were made on our side -- this started failing today (March 27).

Diagnostic action we ran:

We created a debug action to test outbound connectivity from the action runtime:

export const debugFetch = internalAction({
  args: {},
  handler: async () => {
    const targets = [
      { name: 'httpbin', url: 'https://httpbin.org/get' },
      { name: 'google', url: 'https://www.google.com' },
      { name: 'stripe-root', url: 'https://api.stripe.com' },
      { name: 'stripe-meter', url: 'https://api.stripe.com/v1/billing/meter_events' },
    ];

    for (const { name, url } of targets) {
      try {
        const res = await fetch(url, { method: 'GET' });
        console.log(`[debugFetch] ${name} (${url}): ${res.status} ${res.statusText}`);
      } catch (error) {
        console.error(`[debugFetch] ${name} (${url}): FAILED -`, String(error));
      }
    }
  },
});

export const debugFetch = internalAction({
  args: {},
  handler: async () => {
    const targets = [
      { name: 'httpbin', url: 'https://httpbin.org/get' },
      { name: 'google', url: 'https://www.google.com' },
      { name: 'stripe-root', url: 'https://api.stripe.com' },
      { name: 'stripe-meter', url: 'https://api.stripe.com/v1/billing/meter_events' },
    ];

    for (const { name, url } of targets) {
      try {
        const res = await fetch(url, { method: 'GET' });
        console.log(`[debugFetch] ${name} (${url}): ${res.status} ${res.statusText}`);
      } catch (error) {
        console.error(`[debugFetch] ${name} (${url}): FAILED -`, String(error));
      }
    }
  },
});

Results (screenshot attached)

What we've verified:

- General outbound HTTP from actions works fine (httpbin, google both return 200)
- Connections to api.stripe.com specifically fail at the tunnel/proxy layer
- The same Stripe API calls succeed in <500ms via curl from outside Convex
- API keys are valid, Stripe status page shows all systems operational
- We tested with both the Stripe Node SDK (stripe@20.4.1) and raw fetch -- same tunnel error
- Both production and development deployments are affected
- No code or dependency changes on our side

Conclusion: Convex's egress proxy/tunnel is specifically unable to route connections to api.stripe.com. This is a revenue-impacting issue -- all usage-based billing is completely broken. Can someone investigate the tunnel infrastructure urgently?

Convex Community•6d ago•

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Yoasobyin

Urgent: Outbound HTTP requests from actions failing with tunnel error

🪲Bug Report

All outbound HTTP requests from Convex actions to api.stripe.com are failing with:

error sending request for url (https://api.stripe.com/v1/billing/meter_events): client error (Connect): tunnel error: unsuccessful

error sending request for url (https://api.stripe.com/v1/billing/meter_events): client error (Connect): tunnel error: unsuccessful

export const debugFetch = internalAction({
  args: {},
  handler: async () => {
    const targets = [
      { name: 'httpbin', url: 'https://httpbin.org/get' },
      { name: 'google', url: 'https://www.google.com' },
      { name: 'stripe-root', url: 'https://api.stripe.com' },
      { name: 'stripe-meter', url: 'https://api.stripe.com/v1/billing/meter_events' },
    ];

    for (const { name, url } of targets) {
      try {
        const res = await fetch(url, { method: 'GET' });
        console.log(`[debugFetch] ${name} (${url}): ${res.status} ${res.statusText}`);
      } catch (error) {
        console.error(`[debugFetch] ${name} (${url}): FAILED -`, String(error));
      }
    }
  },
});

export const debugFetch = internalAction({
  args: {},
  handler: async () => {
    const targets = [
      { name: 'httpbin', url: 'https://httpbin.org/get' },
      { name: 'google', url: 'https://www.google.com' },
      { name: 'stripe-root', url: 'https://api.stripe.com' },
      { name: 'stripe-meter', url: 'https://api.stripe.com/v1/billing/meter_events' },
    ];

    for (const { name, url } of targets) {
      try {
        const res = await fetch(url, { method: 'GET' });
        console.log(`[debugFetch] ${name} (${url}): ${res.status} ${res.statusText}`);
      } catch (error) {
        console.error(`[debugFetch] ${name} (${url}): FAILED -`, String(error));
      }
    }
  },
});

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