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(Potentially) Useful Heroku Addons (Focused on Ruby Apps)
  • AppSignal: Improve performance, debug errors and track deploys for your Ruby on Rails apps
  • Honeybadger: Modern error management and performance monitoring for web applications
  • Informant: Usability monitoring for Ruby on Rails.
  • Raygun: Real time error reporting you can set up in under 5 minutes!
  • Keen IO: Analytics for Developers
  • DbInsights: Business intelligence insights and analytics from your database
  • IronWorker: Highly available and scalable task queue / worker service.
    • Free version seems only suitable for very small scale tasks. Better to use Que if scheduled size expected to exceed 5.
  • QuotaGuard: Proxy Your API Calls to Stop Sharing IP Quotas
    • Not sure how often something like this would be needed. However, seems good to know where it is if needed.
  • Deploy Hooks: Send a message to specified services on deploy
    • Free deploy hooks for HipChat, IRC, Campfire, HTTP Post, Basecamp, and Email
  • Takipi: Find root cause without sifting through logs
    • May not be sufficently useful for the cost. Free version may be too limited.
  • Exceptiontrap: Powerful & intelligent error tracking and exception monitoring from Germany.
  • Airbrake Bug Tracker: A powerful bug tracker software captures bugs so you fix them fast
  • Bugsnag: Intelligent exception monitoring for your apps
  • Fastly: Fastly is a real-time content delivery network that helps businesses scale
  • Mail2Webhook: Receive incoming email as HTTP POST to your web app
    • Low monthly price. Seems rather suitable for when it's needed.
  • Logentries: Log management made easy, with real-time Heroku specific alerting & dashboards
  • Papertrail: The log management service we always wanted. Papertrail makes logs fun. Ish.
  • FlyData: Automatically backup and analyze your Heroku logs on Amazon S3 and Redshift!
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Todo: Determine which (free) versions to include in future apps.

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