Notify New Relic of Jenkins Deploys

I’m a fan of Jenkins as a build server, and on one particular project we’ve also started using New Relic (I haven’t figured out how to blog fun things about New Relic without sharing graphs of client applications which doesn’t seem like a cool thing to do). New Relic has a feature where you can notify it when you do a deployment, and it shows on the graphs a line marking when that happened, which is super useful for correlating performance changes with code changes.

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