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[flagged] Heroku is down and they didn't know it for 90 minutes (heroku.com)
28 points by justinmolineaux on May 2, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 16 comments


Dashboards and deploys down for nearly an hour, status page still says all is good :(.

https://downdetector.com/status/heroku/ https://status.heroku.com/


Status issue now live for it - https://status.heroku.com/incidents/2539


Unfortunately, Heroku has mostly given up. They simply don't care anymore. It's such a shame, since I (used to) love them.

We run on Heroku and I've been an evangelist for a decade. The current management is a complete disappointment, and this will continue to happen until Salesforce replaces the executive team.


This is ridiculous (as usual) - what are the alternatives folks are using? Or are there really no options like "git push heroku master" where everything just works (or at least, used to work magically).


Fly.io, Render, Vercel, Railway


I've tried all four, and Render is the closest experience to Heroku. It still isn't as easy to use as Heroku, but it is close.


Recently pivoted front end to vercel and it has been amazing, but back end has stayed on Heroku because Vercel only currently offers headless RoR. Actively considering alternatives because of this.


Odd timing, but Vercel launched databases today https://vercel.com/blog/vercel-storage. (I work there)



There's Koyeb that supports git deployments. (FYI, I work there.)


At some point https://updetector.com/status/heroku/ will be more appropriate..


Buy it now!


Loads of tweets reporting dashboard and deployment outages: https://twitter.com/search?q=Heroku&src=typeahead_click&f=li...

No acknowledgement from @herokustatus on twitter or https://status.heroku.com.


And it's back.

I figured it would be fixed by morning, which I guess it technically was

Update: Fixed again, no incident report though


OK they finally figured it out at ~7:06pm PDT. So ~90-minute time-to-detect. Nice. https://status.heroku.com/





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