You can tell New Relic about your deployments and they’ll add vertical lines to the graphs at the corresponding times. This is super helpful as the (often dramatic) impact of a deployment becomes easy to grok.
The documentation on the Events > Deployments page is very helpful, but I still had to tinker with my message to New Relic’s API to get it to work. Here’s what I ended up with:
At the end of my recipe, post to the API with the http_request resource:
http_request "notify_new_relic" do action :post url "https://rpm.newrelic.com/deployments.xml" headers "x-api-key" => "#{node["newrelic"]["apikey"]}" message "application_id" => "#{node["newrelic"]["appid"]}" end
I’m loading the key and application id from attributes. And it works (this is dev…no traffic there :))!
This was crazy simple to do, though it might be better implemented as a report handler. If you go that route please share.
