The Scenario
You are a backend engineer. It is Q2 kickoff week. Your team agreed at the end of Q1 to clean up the Sentry issue tracker before new sprint work begins. You have two hundred issues marked as 'wontfix' in a Google Sheet, collected over the last six months.
The team wants them permanently deleted from Sentry, not just resolved, so the tracker is clean for the new quarter.
The slow version:
- Open Sentry, search for the first issue ID from the sheet
- Click into the issue, find the delete option, confirm the deletion
- Go back, search for the second issue ID
- Repeat two hundred times
- Somewhere around row forty, realize the search is case-sensitive and half your IDs are not matching
- You give up at row sixty and put a reminder in your calendar for next week. Next week never comes.
The fast version is one prompt.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI reads each issue ID from the sheet and deletes it from Sentry without you clicking through the web interface.
Open the SheetXAI sidebar and type:
Delete all Sentry issues whose IDs are listed in column A of my sheet and write 'deleted' or the error in column B.
SheetXAI iterates through all two hundred rows, calls the Sentry delete API for each issue ID, and logs the result in column B. Done before lunch.
What You Get
Column B contains the outcome for every row:
- 'deleted' — the issue was permanently removed from Sentry
- Error message — if the issue ID was not found, already deleted, or the API returned an error
Deletion in Sentry is permanent. The result log in column B is your only record that the issues existed. Keep the sheet. If a stakeholder asks why a Sentry issue ID returns a 404 two months from now, column A and B are the answer.
Filter column B for anything that is not 'deleted' to find the failures. Most failures are issue IDs that were already resolved and auto-archived, or IDs that were copied incorrectly from the original triage list.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Bulk delete lists collected over months are rarely clean. SheetXAI handles the validation and the deletion in the same prompt.
When issue IDs in the sheet have inconsistent formatting
Some rows have the numeric Sentry issue ID, some have the short ID like 'BACKEND-1234', some have a URL pasted in by accident.
For each value in column A: if it looks like a URL, extract the issue ID from the URL. If it looks like a short ID in the format 'PROJECT-NUMBER', use it as is. If it is a numeric ID, use it as is. Then delete each issue from Sentry 'my-org' and write 'deleted' or the error in column B.
When you want to resolve issues instead of deleting some of them
Your team decided that issues from a specific project should be resolved, not deleted, because they might be referenced in commit messages.
For each issue ID in column A: if the project column C says 'legacy-frontend', resolve the issue in Sentry instead of deleting it, and write 'resolved' in column B. For all other rows, delete the issue and write 'deleted' in column B.
When you want to confirm the issues are still unresolved before deleting
You do not want to delete issues that someone quietly fixed last week without updating the sheet.
For each issue ID in column A, check the current status in Sentry before deleting. If the issue is already resolved, write 'already resolved, skipped' in column B. If it is still unresolved, delete it and write 'deleted' in column B.
When the full cleanup is: validate, delete, and log a final count in one pass
The tech lead wants a summary they can paste into the Q2 kickoff notes.
For each issue ID in column A, delete the issue from Sentry 'my-org' and write the result in column B. After processing all rows, write a summary in cell D1: total rows processed, count deleted, count failed, and count already absent. Format it as a short paragraph.
The pattern: the sheet is the deletion manifest. SheetXAI executes it, logs every result, and gives you the audit trail.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and use any sheet of Sentry issue IDs to bulk-delete them before your next quarter kickoff. The Sentry integration is included in every plan. See also how to bulk-update Sentry issue owners and priorities or the Sentry in Google Sheets overview.