Heroku Revamps with Logs, Processes and Node.js

To enable log forwarding from the stack with Heroku you'll need the advanced logging addon, which is $100/month. The basic version of the addon doesn't do forwarding but does allow you to tail things with the CLI, albiet with limited retention.

If you want to do logging out of your app for free and have up to a week's retention, you could use Logglier: https://github.com/freeformz/logglier and a free Loggly account: http://logg.ly/signup. You won't get the Heroku bits of the stack, like cache hits and such, but you can at least see what the app is doing.

We recommend logging:advanced, but here's a copy-and-paste Rails initializer for logging from Heroku to any syslog target:

http://gist.github.com/891497

You can get a free log aggregation account at https://papertrailapp.com/ and it'll give you a target URL to configure (and irl karma for supporting a bootstrapped startup).

The logs won't contain non-Rails requests (Varnish/cache, API deploys) but they're much better than nothing.

Node.js programming language?

Is anyone here hosting their Node app with Heroku ? Right now I'm using Linode but could do with a little bit more memory. of course, the price is right $19.95/month)