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Alec Davies
Alec Davies

Reputation: 127

Heroku Webhook Fails Sometimes

I'm creating a chatbot with dialogflow and I have a webhook hosted on heroku (so that I can use python scripts). The webhook works fine most of the time. However when I haven't used it in a while it will always fail on the first use with a request timeout. Has anyone else come across this issue? Is there a way to wake up the webserver before running the script I have written?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 339

Answers (1)

Damien MATHIEU
Damien MATHIEU

Reputation: 32627

Heroku's free dynos will sleep after 30 minutes of inactivity. Preventing them from sleeping is easy. You need to use any of their paid plans.

See https://www.heroku.com/pricing

Once you use a Hobby dyno, your app will never sleep anymore and you shouldn't be getting request timeouts.

Alternatively, you can also benchmark what's taking a long time to boot your app. With a faster boot time, the first request would be slow but wouldn't get a timeout.
Heroku times out requests after 30 seconds.

Upvotes: 1

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