Support Policy

Heroku is committed to providing a stellar customer experience. As an essential part of this commitment, we offer limited technical support to all paid applications running on the Heroku platform. Technical support is limited to the scope, hours, contacts, and channels below.

1. Scope

Heroku's support offering is available only for the technologies supported by Heroku Platform Stacks, and is limited to the following:

Installation and Configuration Issues

Installation of application dependencies
Best practices for configuration of supported application dependencies
General questions about supported software packages

Troubleshooting

Identifying problems preventing an application from starting or running on Heroku
Providing workarounds or resolutions for known problems
Answering general how-to questions, and providing pointers to documentation
Troubleshooting supported software packages showing erratic or faulty behavior on Heroku, independent of the user's application code

Not Covered

Heroku's technical support services do not extend to the following areas:

General debugging of user applications
Rewriting application code for compatibility with Heroku
Modifying and/or patching third party or Open Source software packages for compatibility with Heroku

2. Who can contact support?

Billing and account management support is available to all customers. Limited technical support is available for Heroku customers utilizing paid Heroku dynos and/or paid Heroku Add-Ons. Support requests will only be processed if:

The request is made through one of our official support channels (see below)
The request originates from a registered Heroku account email address
The requester has collaborator access to any specific Heroku applications pertaining to the request

3. Support Channels

Technical support is available exclusively through the Heroku Support Site located at help.heroku.com.

Web

Registered Heroku users can submit new tickets and view history on previously opened tickets.

Email

If you are unable to log in or access your account, you may submit a ticket by sending an e-mail from your Heroku account email address to support@heroku.com.

4. Unofficial Channels

Heroku support staff will only respond to support requests received through the official channels listed above. However, community channels may exist for peer-to-peer support and discussion.

For all programming related questions related to particular languages or frameworks, please visit the Stack Overflow community. Stack Overflow is a great place to get help from fellow Heroku users by searching previous questions or asking your own.

Please remember that Heroku team members may participate in community channels at Heroku's discretion, but there is no guarantee of response for support issues unless they are submitted through one of the official channels above.

5. Hours

Heroku Support offers 12×5 coverage. Hours are 9am - 9pm Eastern Time, Monday - Friday, excluding US Holidays. Support inquiries may be submitted at any time. 24×7 support is available via our Premium Support package.

The Heroku Platform itself is monitored 24×7. See Section 6, Proactive Monitoring for more details.

6. Proactive Monitoring

The Heroku Cloud Platform is monitored 24×7 by comprehensive automated systems. In the event of any issue affecting the health and operation of Heroku's infrastructure, core systems, or tools, our dedicated operations team is notified and will respond immediately to diagnose and correct any issues. This 24×7 monitoring covers the entire Heroku platform, benefitting all Heroku users.

In the event of a platform issue, a notice will be posted on our platform status site at status.heroku.com to promptly communicate the impact and status of any such issue. If there's an ongoing platform issue, you do not need to submit a support ticket. Instead, monitor the status page which will always be kept up-to-date with the latest progress and information.

7. Premium Support

Please contact us to find out about our Premium Support options.