Trouble upgrading Metabase on Heroku

Ludo · July 26, 2017, 7:00pm

Hi everyone,

I’m unable to upgrade my current version of Metabase on Heroku.
I used the “Deploy to Heoku” button from Metabase to initially create the app.
The version currently running is 0.23.1

I followed the instructions posted here:

github.com

metabase/metabase/blob/master/docs/operations-guide/running-metabase-on-heroku.md#deploying-new-versions-of-metabase

# Running Metabase on Heroku

Heroku is a great place to evaluate Metabase and take it for a quick spin with just a click of a button and a couple minutes of waiting time.  If you decide to keep your Metabase running long term we recommend some upgrades as noted below to avoid limitations of the Heroku free tier.


### Launching Metabase

Before doing anything you should make sure you have a [Heroku](http://www.heroku.com) account that you can access.

If you've got a Heroku account then all there is to do is follow this one-click deployment button

[![Deploy to Heroku](https://www.herokucdn.com/deploy/button.svg)](http://downloads.metabase.com/launch-heroku.html)

This will launch a Heroku deployment using a GitHub repository that Metabase maintains.

It should only take a few minutes for Metabase to start. You can check on the progress by viewing the logs at [https://dashboard.heroku.com/apps/YOUR_APPLICATION_NAME/logs](https://dashboard.heroku.com/apps/YOUR_APPLICATION_NAME/logs) or using the Heroku command line tool with the `heroku logs -t -a YOUR_APPLICATION_NAME` command.


### Upgrading beyond the `Free` tier

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But when I pushed to Heroku (last step) I got this error:
“Failed to detect app matching https://github.com/metabase/metabase-heroku buildpack”

I’m not very familiar with buildpacks so I might be missing something simple here…

Any help would be appreciated !

sameer · July 26, 2017, 9:30pm

We changed buildpacks back in 0.24 I believe.

Check out http://www.metabase.com/docs/v0.25.0/operations-guide/running-metabase-on-heroku#deploying-new-versions-of-metabase and specifically the line

heroku buildpacks:add https://github.com/metabase/metabase-heroku

You can also do this through the UI in Heroku.
Go to your app, and click settings and there's a buildpacks section

Ludo · July 26, 2017, 9:52pm

Thanks Sameer; I found the issue by looking at your screenshot

the buildpack URL is:

heroku buildpacks:add https://github.com/metabase/metabase-buildpack

and NOT:

heroku buildpacks:add https://github.com/metabase/metabase-heroku

There is a mistake on the third step of the upgrade instructions.

Cheers!

dangold1138 · August 17, 2017, 4:46pm

Were you able to upgrade metabase on heroku?
Every time i go through the instructions, it tells me to use metabase-deploy which hasn’t been updated in months. I have added metabase-buildpack as well.
Everytime I run
git push -f heroku master
It says “Everything up-to-date” but it did not upgrade.
Any help would be great!