Question

Heroku allows the option of directly deploying one’s Java .war file using heroku deploy:war (the Procfile is automatically managed by heroku in this case).

How does one use NewRelic with such a setup? The current documentation on Heroku DevCenter on NewRelic asks one to place the NewRelic jar in the root folder of the Java application.

How does one achieve this when using heroku deploy:war to directly deploy the app and not via git?

Answer 1

I received this response from Heroku Support team:

WAR deploy doesn’t specifically handle this case. However, it should
work. You can include the New Relic JAR in your WAR and add the
javaagent flag in your JAVA_OPTS config.