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The Heroku API was down

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Re: The Heroku API was down

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The title of this story, "Apps are down" is a complete mischaracterization of this incident. "Heroku Dashboard/API" would be more appropriate. Nobody's app stopped running because of this. Edit: Thanks for correcting it!

my apologies, I was referring to the "apps" dashboard page, which was inaccessible during the outage. thanks for the quick resolution!

Re: The Heroku API was down

#12
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I interpreted your original comment, "Uptime has never really been Heroku's strong suit", to refer to application uptime . I guess you're actually referring to something different. AFAIK, when any other provider speaks about "uptime", they're referring to whether or not the service they're selling is up and running. For AWS, that'd be whether your instance or ELB is up and running as expected. For Heroku, it's whethe…

My impression was that development meant apps not in the production env. Now it's much more clear. I'd definitely change the wording.

Agreed, this was confusing to me as well, especially since there is no real concept of "development" on the heroku platform. you can't separate your dev/test apps from your production instances in heroku, they are all just treated as "production". might be helpful to clarify this on the status page at some point.

Re: The Heroku API was down

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My impression was that development meant apps not in the production env. Now it's much more clear. I'd definitely change the wording.

Agreed, this was confusing to me as well, especially since there is no real concept of "development" on the heroku platform. you can't separate your dev/test apps from your production instances in heroku, they are all just treated as "production". might be helpful to clarify this on the status page at some point.

The detailed explanation is here, linked from the status site: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-status#status-i...
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