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PR newrelic/newrelic-ruby-agent#1461 added support for deployment recording using a customer's user API key. This update was missing from the document.
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kaylareopelle authored and tabathadelane committed Nov 21, 2022
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This will assign instances in the given environment the label given by `app_name` when browsing your data in the New Relic user interface. The deployment upload script will use that label to associate an app with the deployment.

## Add your user API key (Optional) [#Api-Key]

You can use the New Relic REST API v2 to record deployments by providing your user API key to the agent configuration using `api_key`.

When this configuration option is present, the `newrelic deployments` command will automatically use the New Relic REST API v2 deployment endpoint.

## Record with the command line [#Manual]

If you installed the Ruby agent as a gem, you can record deployments directly by using the `newrelic` executable:
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deployments [OPTIONS] [description]
OPTIONS:
-a, --appname=name Set the application name.
-i, --appid=ID Set the application ID
If not provided, will connect to the New Relic collector to get it
Default is app_name setting in newrelic.yml
-e, --environment=name Override the (RAILS|RUBY)_ENV setting
-u, --user=USER Specify the user deploying.
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