How to get environment variables in live Heroku dyno
heroku run bash
does the similar to heroku ps:exec
but has the config vars available.
The accepted answer is okay in most cases. heroku run
will start a new dyno however, so it won't be enough you need to check the actual environment of an running dyno (let's say, purely hypothetically, that Heroku has an outage and can't start new dynos).
Here's one way to check the environment of a running dyno:
Connect to the dyno:
heroku ps:exec --dyno <dyno name> --app <app name>
For example:
heroku ps:exec --dyno web.1 --app my-app
Get the pid of your server process (check your Procfile if you don't know). Let's say you're using
puma
:ps aux | grep puma
The output might look something like this:
u35949 4 2.9 0.3 673980 225384 ? Sl 18:20 0:24 puma 3.12.6 (tcp://0.0.0.0:29326) [app] u35949 31 0.0 0.0 21476 2280 ? S 18:20 0:00 bash --login -c bundle exec puma -C config/puma.rb u35949 126 0.1 0.3 1628536 229908 ? Sl 18:23 0:00 puma: cluster worker 0: 4 [app] u35949 131 0.3 0.3 1628536 244664 ? Sl 18:23 0:02 puma: cluster worker 1: 4 [app] u35949 196 0.0 0.0 14432 1044 pts/0 S+ 18:34 0:00 grep puma
Pick the first one (4, the first number in the second column, in this example)
Now, you can get the environment of that process. Replace
<PID>
by the process id you just got, for example4
:cat /proc/<PID>/environ | tr '\0' '\n' HEROKU_APP_NAME=my-app DYNO=web.1 PWD=/app RACK_ENV=production DATABASE_URL=postgres://... ...
The
tr
is there to make it easier to read, since the contents of/proc/<pid>/environ
is zero-delimited.
Try heroku run env
instead.
According to the documentation:
"The SSH session created by Heroku Exec will not have the config vars set as environment variables (i.e., env in a session will not list config vars set by heroku config:set
)."