# A 15-Second Health Check for Your Heroku Connect Data Pipeline

DevFeed: [A 15-Second Health Check for Your Heroku Connect Data Pipeline](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/a-15-second-health-check-for-your-heroku-connect-data-pipeline-26410.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.heroku.com/blog/health-check-for-your-heroku-connect-data-pipeline/>)

Author: Nick Prey

Published: 2026-06-24T15:35:14Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Heroku](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/heroku.md>)

Topics: [Heroku](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/heroku.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>), [Data Management](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-management.md>), [SQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sql.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>)

Tags: [cli](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cli.md>), [data-pipeline](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-pipeline.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [heroku](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/heroku.md>), [heroku-connect](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/heroku-connect.md>), [migrations](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/migrations.md>), [salesforce](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/salesforce.md>), [schema](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/schema.md>), [synchronization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/synchronization.md>), [troubleshooting](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/troubleshooting.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial explains how the Heroku Connect CLI plugin's diagnostic command checks connection health, schema alignment, and field configurations in a Salesforce-to-Heroku Postgres data pipeline. It highlights how the command can expose configuration mismatches and provide actionable warnings before schema updates or migrations.

## Source excerpt

Heroku Connect is a fully managed, bidirectional data sync service between Salesforce and Heroku Postgres that lets developers read and write Salesforce data using standard SQL. The sync is straightforward to set up and operates smoothly in the background, but when a field does not update as expected or data seems to lag, you do not need to guess what went wrong. The post A 15-Second Health Check for Your Heroku Connect Data Pipeline appeared first on Heroku.