heroku

Heroku CLI

The Heroku CLI is used to manage Heroku apps from the command line. It is built using oclif.

For more about Heroku see https://www.heroku.com/home

To get started see https://devcenter.heroku.com/start

Overview

This is the next generation Node-based Heroku CLI. The goals of this project were to make plugins more flexible, remove Ruby as a runtime dependency, and make the CLI faster.

It has identical functionality to the old Ruby CLI. Under the hood, it is a modular CLI made up of node.js plugins.

For more on developing plugins, read Developing CLI Plugins

Issues

For problems directly related to the CLI, add an issue on GitHub.

For other issues, submit a support ticket.

Contributors

Command Topics

• heroku access - manage user access to apps
• heroku accounts - list the Heroku accounts in your cache
• heroku addons - tools and services for developing, extending, and operating your app
• heroku ai - manage Heroku AI models
• heroku apps - manage apps on Heroku
• heroku auth - manage authentication for your Heroku account
• heroku authorizations - OAuth authorizations
• heroku autocomplete - display autocomplete installation instructions
• heroku buildpacks - scripts used to compile apps
• heroku certs - SSL certificates
• heroku ci - test runner for Heroku Pipelines
• heroku clients - OAuth clients on the platform
• heroku config - environment variables of apps
• heroku container - deploy your Docker-based app to Heroku
• heroku domains - custom domains for apps
• heroku drains - forward logs to syslog or HTTPS
• heroku features - add/remove app features
• heroku git - set git remote and clone Heroku repository
• heroku help - Display help for heroku.
• heroku keys - add/remove account ssh keys
• heroku labs - add/remove experimental features
• heroku local - run Heroku app locally
• heroku logs - display recent log output
• heroku maintenance - enable/disable access to app
• heroku members - manage organization members
• heroku notifications - display notifications
• heroku orgs - manage organizations
• heroku pg - manage postgresql databases
• heroku pipelines - manage pipelines
• heroku plugins - List installed plugins.
• heroku ps - Client tools for Heroku Exec
• heroku redis - manage heroku redis instances
• heroku regions - list available regions for deployment
• heroku releases - display the releases for an app
• heroku reviewapps - manage reviewapps in pipelines
• heroku run - run a one-off process inside a Heroku dyno
• heroku sessions - OAuth sessions
• heroku spaces - list available spaces
• heroku status - display current status of the Heroku platform
• heroku teams - manage teams
• heroku telemetry - list telemetry drains
• heroku update - update the Heroku CLI
• heroku usage - list usage for metered add-ons attached to an app or apps within a team
• heroku version
• heroku webhooks - list webhooks on an app

Developing

This project is built with lerna. The core plugins are located in ./packages.

After cloning the repo

• Run yarn to install dependencies
• Run yarn build to build the CLI. This will need to be re-run any time you make changes and want to test them locally.

To execute Heroku CLI commands locally, use ./bin/run <command>. For example, to run the heroku apps command with your local code, run ./bin/run apps from the root directory.

Testing

Run all tests with yarn test.

Debugging

Using WebStorm (from JetBrains / IntelliJ), you can run/debug an individual test case.

• Create a new run/debug configuration
• Select the 'Mocha' type

Releasing

See the Heroku CLI Release Steps.

Review our PR guidelines.

Changelog

10.11.0 (2025-06-23)

Bug Fixes

• add alias for heroku-pg-extras (#3322) (d5c2481)
• allow for the use of the --prompt flag with a value outside of prompt mode (#3321) (608e299)

Features

• add docs for repl and prompt modes (#3311) (c52a129)