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Heroku integration

Start logging in 2 minutes

1. Install

Install the Heroku CLI.

2. Login

Log in to Heroku:

Run Heroku Login
heroku login

3. Setup

Set up Better Stack drain to Heroku:

Add Heroku drain
heroku drains:add \
    "https://$INGESTING_HOST_VEC:6515/events?source_token=$SOURCE_TOKEN" \
    -a $HEROKU_APP_SLUG


Insert your Heroku details

You will need to replace $HEROKU_APP_SLUG in the command above. The application slug is the name of the application in Heroku. You can see your available apps in the Heroku dashboard.

4. Start logging 🎉

You should see your logs in Better Stack → Live tail.

Check out your metrics in the Heroku dashboard.

Enable metrics

Enable Heroku Runtime Metrics to take full advantage of our Heroku dashboard.

Use Heroku CLI to set up metrics for your app:

Enable Heroku metrics
heroku labs:enable log-runtime-metrics --app $HEROKU_APP_SLUG
heroku restart --app $HEROKU_APP_SLUG

Insert your Heroku details

You will need to replace $HEROKU_APP_SLUG in the commands above. The application slug is the name of the application in Heroku. You can see your available apps in the Heroku dashboard.

Check out your metrics in the Heroku dashboard.

Need help?

Please let us know at hello@betterstack.com.
We're happy to help! 🙏

Additional resources

Interested in learning more about Better Stack Heroku add-on and best practices for logging in Heroku? Check out our Complete Guide to Logging in Heroku.

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