You can check the status of Heron by doing the following:

1. Start kubectl proxy
   kubectl proxy -p 8001

2. Verify you can access the API server
   curl http://localhost:8001/api/v1/namespaces/{{ .Release.Namespace }}/services/{{ .Release.Name }}-apiserver:9000/proxy/api/v1/version

3. Verify you can access the heron ui
   open http://localhost:8001/api/v1/namespaces/{{ .Release.Namespace }}/services/{{ .Release.Name }}-ui:8889/proxy

4. Set your service url
   heron config {{ .Release.Name }} set service_url http://localhost:8001/api/v1/namespaces/{{ .Release.Namespace }}/services/{{ .Release.Name }}-apiserver:9000/proxy

5. Submit an example topology
   heron submit {{ .Release.Name }} ~/.heron/examples/heron-api-examples.jar org.apache.heron.examples.api.AckingTopology acking

6. Visit the heron ui and see if your example topology is running
   open http://localhost:8001/api/v1/namespaces/{{ .Release.Namespace }}/services/{{ .Release.Name }}-ui:8889/proxy

7. You can kill the example topology by 
   heron kill {{ .Release.Name }} acking