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Real-time status check for Heroku (heroku.com). We check from multiple regions to give you an accurate picture.
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About Heroku
Heroku is a platform-as-a-service owned by Salesforce, running Rails, Node, Python, Java, PHP, Go, and other app stacks with managed add-ons for PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, and hundreds of third-party services. Outages typically affect the dyno runtime (apps crash or fail to start), Heroku Postgres (database connections fail or slow), the build system (deploys queue up), Heroku CI, or the Platform API (breaks automation and CLI operations). Because Heroku hides infrastructure from developers, outages are more painful than on raw AWS since you cannot mitigate from below the platform layer.
The official Heroku status page is available as a reference. Official pages are useful, but they can lag behind real outages by minutes or hours. Independent monitoring catches issues faster.
How Heroku outages affect production workloads
Developer-platform outages have outsized impact because they cascade. When Heroku is degraded, every customer's build pipeline, deploy hook, or webhook delivery can stall, and the failure mode often looks like a customer problem before engineers realize the dependency is the cause. CI runs hang, status checks never report, and queued jobs pile up silently.
Visual Sentinel's checks on heroku.com are designed for this scenario. We report not just whether the endpoint responds, but the full diagnostic shape: status code, response time, TLS chain, DNS resolution path, and any redirects. That gives an on-call engineer a 30-second triage path: is it our code, our network, or the upstream platform?
Common signs Heroku is having issues
- API rate limits returning earlier than the documented thresholds
- Webhook deliveries showing 5xx errors or unusual latency tail
- Deploy or build hooks accepted by Heroku but never firing downstream
- OAuth or token endpoints failing intermittently for the same client credentials
What to do when Heroku is degraded
When Heroku is having trouble, the fastest mitigation is usually feature-flagging the dependency off if your application can degrade gracefully. Check the multi-region results on this page first; if both regions report healthy but your application still sees failures, the issue is likely your network path or DNS, not Heroku itself.
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Provider status references
lag real outages.
Faster detection
Provider status references are often updated manually, lagging 5-30 minutes behind. Visual Sentinel catches issues within 60 seconds, automatically.
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Historical data
Track Heroku uptime over time. See trends, identify recurring issues, and make informed decisions about your dependency.