Heroku: API Unavailable

I went to update some content on my Heroku hosted Python/Flask app and was unable to upload / git push the app due to an "internal server error" and associated "We're investigating issues with an API database failure. We're recovering the database now" message.

Pretty scary, and not a confidence builder given it's my first week testing the service. However. on the upside the downtime (for me) was just a few minutes and the live production web app was still available during this time using the public URL.

Below is a log of the session.

Login... Password (typing will be hidden): ! Internal server error. ! Run `heroku status` to check for known platform issues. j2mac:jello j2$ heroku status === Heroku Status Development: yellow Production: No known issues at this time. === API Unavailable 2013/02/28 19:27:56 (~ 13s+) 2013/02/28 19:27:56 (~ 13s ago) issue We're investigating issues with an API database failure. We're recovering the database now. j2mac:jello j2$ heroku status === Heroku Status Development: yellow Production: No known issues at this time. === API Unavailable 2013/02/28 19:27:56 (~ 1m+) 2013/02/28 19:27:56 (~ 1m ago) issue We're investigating issues with an API database failure. We're recovering the database now. j2mac:jello j2$ date Thu Feb 28 11:29:13 PST 2013 j2mac:jello j2$ git push heroku Counting objects: 7, done. Delta compression using up to 8 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done. Writing objects: 100% (4/4), 1.06 KiB, done. Total 4 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0) -----> Python app detected -----> No runtime.txt provided; assuming python-2.7.3. -----> Using Python runtime (python-2.7.3) -----> Installing dependencies using Pip (1.2.1) Cleaning up... -----> Discovering process types Procfile declares types -> web -----> Compiled slug size: 23.9MB -----> Launching... done, v77 http://stormy-citadel-6634.herokuapp.com deployed to Heroku To git@heroku.com:stormy-citadel-6634.git 8563d23..0fb61d6 master -> master j2mac:jello j2$