Heartbeat and automatically restart application on Heroku

Question

I know it's not the nice way, but does anyone of you know a service where I can run a heartbeat to my heroku application and if it fails for a couple of minutes to respond to call heroku restart and send me an email?

Would be a really nice feature for me...

Thanks a lot!

Cheers!

Answer 1

Restarting the app would definitely not be the best solution.
heroku isn't 100% of the time available See their status page.

There is pingdom though, which will ping your app and notify you if it is down.
But won't take any action for you.