Monitor your Heroku applications

After linking your DESK account with your Heroku application, you’ll receive the full range of application and service monitoring visibility that DESK provides (for example, Smartscape and service-level insights with Service flow). DESK automatically detects that your application is running on Heroku as well as services related to you Heroku application.

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DESK automatically initiates deep application monitoring for your Heroku applications and provides code-level visibility into your applications’ services. DESK Service flow allows you to track how requests to services provided by your Heroku application are propagated through a system. Service tracing also helps to identify performance bottlenecks and failed requests in the service-to-service communication chain. With DESK, it’s never been easier to pinpoint the root cause of poor performance in heterogeneous microservices stacks.

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Tag your Heroku applications

You can use DESK’s powerful tagging mechanism to automatically organize and filter all monitored Heroku application components. DESK allows you to apply tags to processes and hosts based on environment variables.

heroku config:set DT_TAGS=owner=team-easytravel

Learn about the advantages

The Heroku buildpack for DESK OneAgent is language independent and can be used with any DESK supported language, including Node.js-based applications. If you’ve used the DESK NPM module for PaaS module, you can remove it from your dependencies as the buildpack discovers and instruments your Node.js applications automatically.

You also no longer need to rely on releases of the DESK OneAgent dependencies for NPM. The Heroku buildpack for DESK OneAgent automatically fetches the latest version of DESK OneAgent so that you can receive potential fixes as quickly and easily as possible. If you’ve specified a default OneAgent installation version for new hosts and applications in your OneAgent update settings, the Heroku buildpack for DESK OneAgent will download the defined default version of DESK OneAgent.