The Scenario
A platform engineering team maintains a release log in Excel. Every production deploy gets a row: version string, release date, deployer. For three months, nobody registered those releases in PostHog error tracking. When errors started showing up, PostHog couldn't attribute them to the right version. Now there are 15 unregistered releases, a backfill requirement, and a new policy: every deploy triggers a PostHog error tracking registration going forward. The backfill goes first.
The bad version:
- Navigate to PostHog error tracking, click "Create release," paste version string from row 1, enter release date, save — repeat for 14 more rows
- Reach release 8 and realize PostHog's date field requires a specific format — the workbook has MM/DD/YYYY and you've been entering it that way, but saved records show blank dates because PostHog silently rejected the format
- Go back and re-enter 8 dates in ISO 8601, finish the remaining 7, then discover two version strings had leading spaces from the Excel export that PostHog accepted but that won't match what the error tracking SDK reports in production
Fifteen rows, manually entered, with a format mismatch hiding in every other field.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent inside your Excel workbook. It reads your release log and calls PostHog's error tracking release create endpoint for each row — handling date format conversion — and writes returned release UUIDs into the workbook.
Create a PostHog error tracking release for each row in the 'Releases' worksheet — version string in column A, release date in column B — and write each returned release UUID into column C.
What You Get
- PostHog creates one release record per row — version and date from the workbook
- Dates are converted to ISO 8601 before the request is sent
- Column C receives the returned release UUID for each row — confirmation that registration succeeded
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Version strings have leading or trailing whitespace
Trim all whitespace from column A before creating PostHog error tracking releases. For each row, create a release with trimmed version from column A and date from column B. Write returned UUIDs into column C.
You want to export error fingerprints after registering releases
Fetch all PostHog error tracking fingerprints for this project and write error title, occurrence count, first-seen date, and status into columns A through D of the 'Error Triage' worksheet. Sort by occurrence count descending.
Validate date formats before sending
Before creating any PostHog error tracking releases, validate that all values in column B are parseable as dates. Write "Invalid date format" in column C for rows that fail, and skip them. For all other rows, create the release and write the returned UUID into column C.
Backfill all releases, then export error attribution
Create PostHog error tracking releases for all rows in the 'Releases' worksheet — version from column A, date from column B. Write UUIDs into column C. Then fetch the current PostHog error fingerprints and write error title, version attributed, and occurrence count into columns A through C of a new 'Error Attribution' worksheet.
Register and audit in one prompt.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open your release log Excel workbook, ask it to register all rows in PostHog error tracking, and have the backfill done before your next deploy. Related: Create PostHog Batch Export Configurations From an Excel workbook and the PostHog hub.