Add-ons
- Engineering
- Last Updated: April 16, 2025
- Matt Tanner
With API-driven applications being increasingly common, understanding how your APIs are performing is crucial for success. That’s where the combination of Heroku and Moesif allows developers and their organizations to step up their observability game. In this blog, we will quickly examine how you can integrate Moesif with your Heroku app to begin monetizing and analyzing your API traffic. Let’s kick things off by taking a brief look at both platforms.
- Ecosystem
- Last Updated: October 09, 2024
- Julián Duque, Kiran Hew
If your cloud application performs poorly or is unreliable, users will walk away, and your enterprise will suffer. To know what’s going on inside of your million-concurrent-user application (Don’t worry, you’ll get there!), you need observability. Observability gives you the insights you need to understand how your application behaves. As your application and architecture scale up, effective observability becomes increasingly indispensable.
Heroku gives you more than just a flexible and developer-friendly platform to run your cloud applications. You also get access to a suite of built-in observability features. Heroku’s core application metrics, alerts, and language-specific runtime metrics offer a comprehensive view…
- News
- Last Updated: April 05, 2024
- Vivek Viswanathan, Vinil Jain
Add-on Controls for Heroku Teams
At Heroku, trust and security are top priorities and we’ve been steadily adding more security controls to the platform. Recently, we launched SSO for Heroku Teams, and today, we’re excited to announce more enhancements for teams: add-on controls . Previously, this feature was only available to Heroku Enterprise customers.
The Elements Marketplace has add-ons built by our partners that help teams accelerate app development on Heroku . Add-ons can interact with your team’s data and apps, so it’s important to manage and audit which add-ons your team uses. Enabling add-on controls helps…
- Life
- Last Updated: June 03, 2024
- Sally Vedros
Every entrepreneur wonders: “Will my startup sink or swim?” When Felix Brandon and his wife Jordan Lloyd Bookey launched Zoobean , a startup focused on children’s reading, they found themselves swimming in rough waters early on. A few months after launch, the founders were invited to pitch their business on the TV show Shark Tank.
What felt like a sinking moment turned into more than a lifeline for the fledgling business — it entirely transformed their business model. In the year that followed the Shark Tank episode, Zoobean went from a consumer subscription service to an enterprise reading program platform loved…
- Ecosystem
- Last Updated: March 21, 2018
- Arif Gursel
Asynchronous provisioning allows add-ons to perform out-of-band provisioning in a first-class way. It’s intended for add-on services that need extended time to set up and help make automated app setup and orchestration easier and less error-prone.
The customer will be billed as soon as the add-on starts provisioning. This means the time and cost of provisioning your service is accounted for in how much a customer pays. As such, you should make every effort to provision expediently so customers get value from your service as quickly as possible.
Add-ons that take longer than 12 hours to provision…
- Ecosystem
- Last Updated: January 26, 2018
- Arif Gursel
Need to quickly catch up on this past quarter's announcements? Here are the top three topics to tune in on:
The Platform API for Partners provides many official endpoints that allow you to introspect security settings, discover other customer instances of the same add-on, and much more. With the Platform API, add-ons have an OAuth client secret and a number of OAuth authorizations, one token per provisioned add-on; it is only used to authenticate requests to create the scoped tokens and not used to authenticate other requests to the Platform API.
Updated password requirements…
- Ecosystem
- Last Updated: January 24, 2018
- Arif Gursel
The Platform API for Partners provides many official endpoints that the App Info API doesn’t support. These endpoints let you introspect security settings, discover other customer instances of the same add-on, and much more. Platform API for Partners endpoints are also more consistent and “better traveled.” Heroku uses these endpoints internally, and customers also use them directly.
With the Platform API, add-ons have an OAuth client secret and a number of OAuth authorizations, one token per provisioned add-on. The OAuth client secret is only used to authenticate requests to create the scoped tokens; it is not used to…
- News
- Last Updated: January 11, 2018
- Nahid Samsami
We are excited to announce that the new Heroku Partner Portal for Add-ons is now generally available.
The new portal offers an improved partner experience for building, managing, and updating Heroku add-ons. Our goal is to create a workflow that will give you more freedom and enable you to bring your add-ons to market more easily.
The new portal has been organized into a simple, elegant interface that is similar to the rest of Heroku's products. In each section, we've made more functionality available via the portal interface, where in the past emails or support tickets might…
- Ecosystem
- Last Updated: October 27, 2017
- Arif Gursel
Need to quickly catch up on this past quarter's announcements? Here are the top three topics to tune in on:
Heroku has expanded regions availability for Private Spaces and introduced the general availability of the Dublin region on September 26, 2017. Heroku users are able to run apps in all of the following Private Spaces regions: Virginia, Oregon, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Sydney, and Dublin. Please verify that your add-on's manifest accurately reflect the supported Privates Spaces regions.
Heroku app webhooks for customers and add-on webhooks for partners are generally available . Partners are…
- News
- Last Updated: August 22, 2017
- Nahid Samsami
We're happy to announce that Heroku app webhooks is now generally available for all Heroku customers.
App webhooks provide notifications when your Heroku app changes, including modifications to domain settings, releases, add-ons, and dyno formations. These notifications can empower your internal communications, dashboards, bots or anything else that can receive HTTP POST requests. Integrating with Heroku webhooks provides easy support for driving custom workflows and 3rd party tools.
With the webhooks CLI plugin, you can subscribe to events with a single command.
heroku plugins:install heroku-webhooks …
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