capistrano-new-relic

Capistrano v2 recipe to notify New Relic of deployments.

This gem is inspired by https://github.com/martinj/capistrano-jenkins.

Your your name and email os fetched from git config, so make sure you have valid values for user.name and user.email.

Note: Capistrano 3 is completely incompatible with Capistrano 2. If you are using Capistrano 3 you can use cap-newrelic (the configuration is not directly compatible).

gem install capistrano-new-relic

:new_relic_api_key

API key to use when posting to New Relic.

By default it will check for the API key in the environment variable NEW_RELIC_API_KEY.

Include the recipe

require 'capistrano-new-relic'

Set required parameters

set :new_relic_app_name, "My Application"
set :new_relic_app_id, "XXXXXXXXXX"
set :branch, "master"
set :deploy_env, "production"
set :new_relic_api_key, "<yoursecretapikey>"

Add the task, typically after deploy

after "deploy:update_code", "newrelic:notify"