Cloud Computing: Heroku uptime status gets historical upgrade

Grazed from CloudPro. Author: Jane McCallion.

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider Heroku has introduced a new aspect to its status monitoring service, which allows users to review the cloud platform’s performance over the past year. Previously, the Heroku Status dashboard had focused on the present health of the platform.

The uptime review page covers both the US and Europe regions and was the top-requested feature at the launch of the Europe region in April, the company claimed. At the end of each month, the uptime of the platform is displayed as a percentage. The company claims that, as the Heroku platform is spread across many datacentres, it is rare for all applications running on it to be affected at the same time…

Therefore, the percentage represents an average of the number of applications affected. In a blog post, the company said: “The new uptime page provides a longer-term perspective of Heroku uptime and incidents – perspective that is critical for transparency and continued trust in the Heroku platform…

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