Occasionally, there will be issues with Heroku itself. The first place to look when experiencing strange issues is Heroku's status page. It keeps track of all the ongoing issues and frequently updates us with information on when we can expect them to be resolved. If we're having trouble deploying our application, seeing downtime, or just general performance issues, Heroku's status is a good place to check.
We can quickly check Heroku's status from the command line. Let's open up a terminal to try it out by performing the following steps:
We can run the following command at any time to get a quick look at Heroku's status:
$ heroku status === Heroku Status Development: No known issues at this time. Production: No known issues at this time.
For more detailed information, we can take a look at Heroku's status page (https://status.heroku.com/). It shows all the current and past service interruptions:
Any issues with Heroku will most likely affect our application...