Is Heroku Down Right Now?
Live global uptime status, multi-region edge latency, official incident reports, and automated monitoring for Heroku.
Heroku
heroku.comCloud application platform for deploying Ruby, Node, Python, Java, and Go dynos.
Primary edge roundtrip
Edge consensus
NA, EU, APAC Edge DOs
Edge consensus mesh
Stop checking manually.
When Heroku goes down or suffers silent latency degradation, you shouldn't be refreshing status pages, searching social feeds, or waiting for angry user reports. Get alerted the exact second Heroku fails.
Free 50 monitors • 3m standard (1m for first 10) • 2-of-3 Edge Quorum • No credit card required
10-Second Edge Intervals
Continuous HTTP, WebSocket & DNS checks from 15+ global edge nodes.
4-of-7 Quorum Verification
Multi-region consensus verification prevents 3 AM wakeups from transient routing blips.
Multi-Channel Escalation
Instant alerts to Slack, Discord, Telegram, SMS, PagerDuty & Webhooks.
import { defineMonitor } from "@steadystack/core";
export default defineMonitor({
name: "Heroku API & Health",
target: "https://heroku.com",
interval: "10s",
consensus: { requiredRegions: 3 },
alerts: ["slack-dev-ops", "pagerduty-p1", "discord-incidents"],
});Global Edge Reachability & Regional Latency
Synthetic probe response times tested from SteadyStack worldwide vantage points.
Downtime Impact Analysis
What happens when Heroku degrades
Dyno crashes throw H10/H12/H14 errors, Postgres connection limits exhaust, deploys fail.
Common HTTP Error Codes Observed
Critical Monitored Subsystems
Components tracked on heroku.com
Engineering Resilience Guide: Surviving Heroku Outages
Defensive software architecture patterns to prevent third-party cascade failures.
Immediate Tactical Steps
- 1Run heroku logs --tail.
- 2Check heroku ps to verify running dyno count.
Recommended Resiliency Patterns
Circuit Breaker Pattern: Automatically trip and fallback to cache when Heroku error rates exceed 15% in a 30s rolling window.
Idempotent Background Retries: Push failed API events into an asynchronous dead-letter queue with exponential backoff and jitter.
Multi-Region Edge Synthetic Consensus: Rely on SteadyStack to alert your team before end-users notice degradation.
Frequently Asked Questions: Heroku Availability & Monitoring
Everything you need to know about tracking Heroku outages and SLA reliability.