Expose Heroku metrics as a dataset in Geckoboard 📈
Our online accounting SAAS app www.dougs.fr runs on Heroku. While Heroku natively provides interesting monitoring metrics, there is no off the shelf solution to display them in a Geckoboard dashboard, so we made it.
- Deploy Geckometrics somewhere (for instance on an Heroku free hobby dyno):
- Redirect the log drain of the app you want to monitor to your geckometrics instance, for example:
heroku drains:add https://YOUR_GECKOMETRICS.herokuapp.com/drains/TOKEN -a YOUR_APP
- Set up some custom geckoboard widgets using the
heroku.metricsdataset.
If anyone is interested, we can provide a bit more guidance on how to set up this (open an issue here or ping us on twitter @dougscompta).
Our lovely realtime Heroku monitoring:
