Custom deployment name for cli deploys | Railway | Page 1

lost hawk Dec 29, 2025, 8:38 PM

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Is there a way to set custom deploy names when we deploy from cli instead of the standard "railway up" name

cobalt oxide Jan 29, 2026, 6:17 PM

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Bumping this. I'm having the same issue. With Github integration I get the commit message as the name of the deployment. However, when using the CLI from deploy.yml I just get railway up which is not useful. I can't seem to find a way to change that.

scenic wharf Jan 29, 2026, 6:58 PM

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We don't support changing this.

cobalt oxide Jan 29, 2026, 8:54 PM

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Is it something that could be done in the future? It seems pretty trivial to add a -m flag and pass it through and makes understanding what is deployed in each environment much easier.

scenic wharf Jan 30, 2026, 12:11 AM

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It is something that could be done now, I will let you know when it is live.

scenic wharf Jan 30, 2026, 1:12 AM

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It's live whenever this finishes building - https://github.com/railwayapp/cli/pull/779

cobalt oxide Jan 30, 2026, 4:32 PM

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Thanks Brody! I've tested it this morning and it doesn't seem to work though, unless I'm misunderstanding. I'm using the new version 4.27.5.

        run: |
          # Get first line of commit message, escape quotes
          MSG=$(echo "${{ github.event.head_commit.message }}" | head -n1 | sed 's/"/\\"/g')
          echo "Deploying with message: $MSG"
          railway up --service ml4-api -m "$MSG" --detach &
          railway up --service ml4-worker -m "$MSG" --detach &
          railway up --service ml4-web -m "$MSG" --detach &
          wait

And in github I get:

Deploying with message: Second test of commit message
Indexing...
Indexing...
Uploading...
Uploading...
Indexing...
Uploading...

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But the dashboard still shows this:

scenic wharf Jan 30, 2026, 4:38 PM

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Can you clear the Railway web cache, please?

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This was a change across three components: backend, frontend, and CLI.

If you are accessing the frontend from your local browser cache, then the old frontend version won't support showing the message.

cobalt oxide Jan 30, 2026, 5:14 PM

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Yep that fixed it. Thanks again!

scenic wharf Jan 30, 2026, 5:21 PM

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Awsome!

lilac girder Jan 30, 2026, 7:33 PM

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Is it possible to get this message sent with webhooks?

scenic wharf Jan 30, 2026, 7:34 PM

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Use case?

lilac girder Jan 30, 2026, 7:36 PM

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Custom discord webhooks etc

scenic wharf Jan 30, 2026, 7:55 PM

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Yeah, I think we can do that, though I'm noticing perhaps a more relevant use case would be the message showing up in the workspace audit logs, but thats all the same system.

#Custom deployment name for cli deploys