Heroku: Troubleshooting
Solutions to common problems and errors
Seeing the logs for your app
To see a continuous flow of the logs for your app:
heroku logs --tail --app app-name-goes-here
(requires heroku command line app, which is installed on CSIL. Use heroku login -i to login through a CSIL ssh session.)
When using mvn heroku:deploy
Note: this is a workflow based on including a heroku plugin in the pom.xml file.
We have not been using this workflow recently in CS56 and CS48, but some tutorials might include it, so I’m leaving this in the documentation.
Error: Could not find app name: No 'heroku' remote found.
Symptom: You use mvn heroku:deploy and see:
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal com.heroku.sdk:heroku-maven-plugin:2.0.3:deploy
(default-cli) on project spring-boot-github-oauth-demo01:
Failed to deploy application: Could not find app name: No 'heroku' remote found. -> [Help 1]
Possible Causes, and Solutions:
- Make sure you are logged into the heroku cli
- Solution:
heroku login
- Solution:
- Make sure that the correct heroku app is defined in your
pom.xml- Solution: list your apps with
heroku appsthen check the value of<appName>in theheroku-maven-plugin
- Solution: list your apps with
- No remote is defined for heroku
- To check, type
git remote -vand see if a remote forherokuis listed. If not: - To add it, use
heroku git:remote --app app-name(replaceapp-namewith the name of your app)
- To check, type
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