On: Heroku is partially down (my site unresponsive)

[towelrod]

That's interesting. Installing New Relic makes your site dependent on New Relic's availability? That's kinda scary...

Of course its also possible that you just got lucky and Heroku came back up for you when you redeployed. Could be a coincidence.

[mickeyben → towelrod]

We had the same issue at the Seesmic Web launch 2 years ago and uninstalling new relic fixed the issue.

But the guys at New Relic helped us and fixed the issue, according to them it should not happen anymore.

[Serbocro → mickeyben]

The New Relic agent should never have an affect on whether or not your application runs. If you think this is happening, please email us at support@newrelic.com so we can help figure out what is going on.