While you cannot ssh directly, you can get a bash shell on a heroku dyno quite easily by running: heroku run bash This can be very handy for debugging. That

While you cannot ssh directly, you can get a bash shell on a heroku dyno quite easily by running: heroku run bash This can be very handy for debugging. That said, heroku will spin up a new dyno instance to run the bash shell. You cannot (as far as I know) get a shell on a specific dyno of your choice.