Heroku Ip Address
Can you provide me with the IP address for my application?
Issue
Your DNS provider requires an IP address for a DNS A-record in their control panel for root level domains.
Resolution
Due to the way Heroku works, we are unable to provide you with an IP address to use with an A record for your application. You should consider migrating your DNS to a provider that supports using a CNAME at the root level (read more).
Many DNS providers support using a CNAME value at the root record by implementing their own record type. They will usually refer to these by their own marketing name such as CNAME flattening, ALIAS or ANAME. These different record types all serve the same purpose and will work when adding a custom domain to your application.
Though it is possible to find the IP addresses returned by an application, we do not recommend using these in DNS records as they can and do change frequently.
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Get IP of Heroku dynos – Stack Overflow
I have a Heroku app making some API calls to an external service. There are some issues and the service wants to know what IPs are making the calls.
A lot of the basic tools like ifconfig, traceroute, netstat, etc don’t exist on the machines. Looks like they are running a very barebones version of Ubuntu 14. 04. 5.
I was able to use heroku ps:exec -a
1) It appears that this only allows me to SSH into the web. 1 dyno (and I am making my API calls through rest. 1, rest. 2, etc. )
2) These calls go through a router on Heroku’s side.
How can I get the IPs of all dyno instances and/or the router?
asked Sep 13 ’17 at 0:13
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Get the list of dynos with the heroku ps -a
You actually can ssh into individual dyno instances with heroku ps:exec -a
Get the individual dyno IP with the ip command e. g. ip addr | grep “global eth0″ | awk ‘{ print $2}’.
Get the router IP with curl ”. is also good.
You could use expect to programmatically retrieve the IPs from every dyno by running the Heroku SSH command, waiting for the prompt, running the IP command(s), logging out, then repeating for each dyno instance.
answered Sep 13 ’17 at 2:46
According to the docs, Heroku Dynos can be any IP from an AWS Region. Having a dedicated/static IP for your Dynos is part of their enterprise offering.
However, you can have a dedicated/static IP by adding an add-on (e. Fixie, Proximo or one of these add-ons)
Also, you can have the Dynos make a GET request to and it will respond with the Dynos public IP (more ideas in the comments section below).
answered Sep 13 ’17 at 0:30
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Frequently Asked Questions about heroku ip address
How do I find my Heroku IP address?
2 Answers. Get the list of dynos with the heroku ps -a <app> command. You actually can ssh into individual dyno instances with heroku ps:exec -a <app> -d <dyno_instance> –ssh . Get the individual dyno IP with the ip command e.g. ip addr | grep “global eth0” | awk ‘{ print $2 }’ .Sep 13, 2017
Does Heroku change IP address?
Don’t worry, your Heroku Static IP Addresses will never change when you need to change your usage plan.
How do I get a static IP on Heroku app?
3 Answers. You can use QuotaGuard Static Heroku add-on. All requests that you make via this proxy will appear to the destination server to originate from one of the two static IPs you will be assigned when you sign up.Sep 27, 2015
