Reporting Deployments

Ruby users: make sure you check out our section on Ruby deployment tracking before you re-invent the wheel.

Deploying with GitHub Actions

If your CI/CD pipeline is hosted with GitHub Actions, you can use the Honeybadger Deploy Action to notify our API about deployments.

Sending deployment notifications manually

If you need to manually notify Honeybadger of a deploy, you can use our API directly.

To do this, make a POST request to https://api.honeybadger.io/v1/deploys with the following parameters:

Parameter Required Description
api_key Required Your project's API key
deploy[environment] Optional The environment name.
Example: production
deploy[revision] Optional The VCS revision being deployed. Could be a git hash, or a tag name.
Example: 7cd4bac1bd7e2ddf858d10ee86e362c8d8e2f912
deploy[repository] Optional The base URL of the VCS repository. It should be HTTPS-style.
Example: https://github.com/honeybadger-io/honeybadger-ruby
deploy[local_username] Optional The name of the user who is deploying.
Example: Jane

Here's an example curl command to do a deploy notification:

bash
curl --data "deploy[environment]=production&deploy[local_username]=Mary&deploy[revision]=12345&deploy[repository]=https://github.com/user/repo.git&api_key=asdf" "https://api.honeybadger.io/v1/deploys"

You can also send a JSON payload when specifying the content type as application/json:

bash
curl https://api.honeybadger.io/v1/deploys \ -H 'X-API-Key: asdf' \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -H 'Accept: application/json' \ -d '{ "deploy": { "environment": "production", "local_username": "sam", "revision": "7cd4bac1bd7e2ddf858d10ee86e362c8d8e2f912", "repository": "https://github.com/someuser/somerepo" } }'

If everything goes well, you'll get a response saying {"status":"OK"}