How to monitor memory usage on heroku (node.js)

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There is New Relic for Rails, but I could not find anything available for node.js. Is there any tool or an API to monitor memory usage of heroku dynos?

when you find it please post back here - we decided against using node based on the fact that we couldn't monitor it (at the time - 6 months ago) effectively on Heroku to decide if/when we need to scale. We got in touch with NR who had nothing to say about it at the time. — John Beynon
– John Beynon, Commented Mar 13, 2012 at 16:17
Support stuff said there is no official tool or API however you could make use of heroku run /proc/*/statm (I didn't figure it out myself yet) — sarp
– sarp, Commented Mar 14, 2012 at 15:18

Michelle Tilley · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-27 21:53:36Z

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This may not be the full solution you're looking for, but you can get the current memory usage of a Node.js process via process.memoryUsage().

answered Mar 27, 2012 at 21:53

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shredding Over a year ago

Could you tell how the values can be used? I see, we have rss, headTotal and heapMaster? How can I calculate this to MB and how is this related to the 512 MB RAM of a dyno?

bendytree Over a year ago

This SO post explains the values: stackoverflow.com/questions/12023359/…

Arunoda Susiripala · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-22 16:16:31Z

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Use node-usage, additionally you can see the CPU usage too.

answered Feb 22, 2013 at 16:16

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mikegradek · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-07 16:37:53Z

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Although not as full-featured as New Relic, the nodetime npm package (and matching site) does provide memory usage, latency and similar monitoring.

answered Dec 7, 2012 at 16:37

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