How do I check if Heroku is having issues?

This page checks Heroku availability in real time. You can also monitor Heroku continuously with Visual Sentinel, get instant alerts via email, Slack, Discord, or WhatsApp when Heroku goes down.

How can I get alerted when Heroku goes down?

Set up a free monitor for heroku.com on Visual Sentinel. You will get alerts within 60 seconds via your choice of 10 notification channels including email, WhatsApp, Slack, Discord, and Telegram.

Where is the official Heroku status page?

The official Heroku status page is at https://status.heroku.com/. However, official status pages often lag behind real outages. Visual Sentinel detects Heroku issues independently with 60-second checks from multiple global regions.

Can I still deploy to Heroku during a build-system outage?

No. Builds run on Heroku's build infrastructure; a build-system outage queues all incoming deploys. Running apps continue to serve traffic, but you cannot ship new code. Consider releasing a pre-built container via Container Registry if you need to bypass the build queue in an emergency.

Does a Heroku Postgres outage affect my app even if the dyno is healthy?

Yes, if your app depends on the database. Well-architected apps with read replicas or graceful-degradation patterns weather brief database incidents. Apps with a single primary and no caching fail as soon as the connection pool exhausts.

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Check the status indicator above for real-time Heroku availability. If Heroku is down, you can also check their official status page at https://status.heroku.com/ for incident updates.

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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 at status.heroku.com. However, official status pages are often updated manually and can lag behind real outages by minutes or hours. Independent monitoring catches issues faster.

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Check the status indicator at the top of this page for real-time Heroku availability. If Heroku is down, you can also check their official status page at https://status.heroku.com/ for incident updates.

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Monitor Heroku automatically.

Get instant alerts when Heroku goes down, before your users notice. Visual Sentinel checks every 60 seconds from multiple global regions.

60-second checks

Know within a minute, day or night.

Multi-region

EU & US checks. Catch regional outages.

10 alert channels

Email, Slack, Discord, WhatsApp, Telegram, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, Teams, Prometheus, webhooks.

free trial · no card required · cancel anytime

Is Heroku down right now?

About Heroku

Monitor Heroku automatically.

60-second checks

Multi-region

10 alert channels

Official status pageslag real outages.

Faster detection

Instant alerts

Multi-region verification

Historical data

Answers,in plain English.

Stop refreshing status pages.Get pinged when it breaks.

Is Heroku down right now?

About Heroku

Monitor Heroku automatically.

60-second checks

Multi-region

10 alert channels

Official status pageslag real outages.

Faster detection

Instant alerts

Multi-region verification

Historical data

Answers,in plain English.

Stop refreshing status pages.Get pinged when it breaks.

Official status pages
lag real outages.

Answers,
in plain English.

Stop refreshing status pages.
Get pinged when it breaks.

Official status pages
lag real outages.

Answers,
in plain English.

Stop refreshing status pages.
Get pinged when it breaks.