The Scenario
You are a backend engineer. It is Q2 kickoff week. The team agreed at Q1 close to delete two hundred 'wontfix' Sentry issues from an Excel workbook collected over six months, so the tracker is clean before new work begins.
The slow version:
- Search for the first issue ID in Sentry, click delete, confirm
- Repeat two hundred times
- Around row forty the search is case-sensitive and half your IDs stop matching
- You give up at row sixty and put a reminder in your calendar. The reminder never gets acted on.
The fast version is one prompt.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI reads the issue IDs from the workbook and deletes them from Sentry without you touching the web interface.
Open the SheetXAI sidebar and type:
Delete all Sentry issues whose IDs are listed in column A of my workbook and write 'deleted' or the error in column B.
SheetXAI iterates through all two hundred rows, calls the delete API for each, and logs the result. Done before lunch.
What You Get
Column B: 'deleted' for every successful row, or the error for IDs that were already gone, invalid, or caused a permissions error. Keep the workbook — it is your only audit record that the issues ever existed.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
When issue IDs have inconsistent formatting
For each value in column A: extract the issue ID from any pasted URLs, use short IDs as-is, use numeric IDs as-is. Then delete each from Sentry 'my-org' and write 'deleted' or the error in column B.
When some issues should be resolved instead of deleted
For each row: if column C says 'legacy-frontend', resolve the issue instead of deleting it and write 'resolved' in column B. For all other rows, delete and write 'deleted'.
When you want to confirm issues are still unresolved before deleting
For each issue ID in column A, check the current status in Sentry. If already resolved, write 'already resolved, skipped' in column B. If still unresolved, delete and write 'deleted'.
When the tech lead wants a summary for the Q2 kickoff notes
Delete all issues in column A from Sentry 'my-org' and write results in column B. After processing all rows, write in cell D1: total processed, count deleted, count failed, count already absent — formatted as a short paragraph.
The pattern: the workbook is the deletion manifest. SheetXAI executes it and logs every result.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and use any Excel workbook of Sentry issue IDs to bulk-delete them. The Sentry integration is included in every plan. See also how to bulk-update Sentry issue assignees from Excel or the Sentry in Excel overview.