Can I prevent Strapi on Google App Engine from going to Sleep - nginx

Question

I am hosting Strapi the headless CMS on Google App Engine and my issue is that this backend goes to sleep after some inactivity, and due to this it requires waking up when it is interacted with, resulting in a good few seconds passing by before any API calls are retrieved.
I can see on Google App Engine the logs show that the app is starting, then the network stuff happens and so on until nginx is started and then a welcome back message is stated before the API call can be seen.
Does anyone know how I can keep this running continuously without having it sleep…perhaps pinging is an option but I was hoping for a setting/config that would allow this.
Thank you

Answer 1

Here is a Guide for creating a strapi project on App Engine.
As mentioned in the Documentation :
Warmup requests are used by the App Engine scheduler, which controls
the auto scaling of instances based on user-supplied configuration.
With warmup requests enabled, App Engine issues GET requests to
/_ah/warm up. You can implement handlers for this request to perform
application-specific tasks, such as pre-caching application data.
The scheduler starts up instances when it determines that more
instances are needed. Warmup requests may appear in logs even if they
are disabled because the scheduler uses them to start instances.
For example, if you are using Express.js, your handler might look
like:
const express = require('express');
const app = express();
app.get('/_ah/warmup', (req, res) => {
// Handle your warmup logic. Initiate db connection, etc.
});
// Rest of your application handlers.
app.get('/', handler);
app.listen(8080);
You can also refer the forum for more information related to strapi automatic scaling on App Engine.
For more information, you can refer to the Documentation_1 and Documentation_2 to know how instances are managed and requests have been handled on App engine.