The Scenario
You are on the platform team. The head of engineering sent a message at 4:15 PM on Thursday: "Can someone pull together a chart of our daily error volume for the last thirty days? I want to overlay it with the deployment dates from last week and see if we introduced a regression."
The data is in Sentry. You need it in a Google Sheet by end of day so the BI analyst can build the overlay chart in the morning.
The slow version:
- Open Sentry, navigate to the Stats tab
- Try to export the data, discover the export is not granular enough
- Find the Sentry API docs for event stats
- Write a quick script, authenticate, run it, debug the pagination
- Copy the output into a Google Sheet
- It is 5:55 PM. You are still fixing the column headers.
The fast version is one prompt and you are on the Slack channel sharing the sheet link by 4:30.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI reads the Sentry event stats API and writes the data directly into the sheet, so you do not have to write a single line of code.
Open the SheetXAI sidebar and type:
Pull Sentry organization event stats for the last 30 days broken down by day from organization 'my-org' and write each date and total error event count into columns A and B of this sheet. Format the dates as YYYY-MM-DD. Add a header row.
SheetXAI calls the Sentry stats API, gets thirty rows of daily event counts, and writes them into the sheet in under a minute. The BI analyst has their raw data before they leave for the day.
What You Get
A clean two-column table ready for charting:
- Column A — date, formatted YYYY-MM-DD, one row per day for the last thirty days
- Column B — total error event count for that day across the organization
- Header row — labeled Date and Error Count
Add a third column for deployment dates manually, paste in last week's deploys, and the overlay chart the head of engineering asked for takes five minutes in Google Sheets itself. You are not blocked on data.
The data is static, a snapshot from the time you ran the prompt. If the head of engineering wants a fresh pull tomorrow, you give SheetXAI the same prompt and it overwrites the range.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Event volume investigations usually lead to follow-up questions. SheetXAI handles the follow-ups without leaving the sheet.
When Sentry event counts use a different field than you expected
Sentry's stats endpoint returns multiple event categories: errors, transactions, replays. You need just errors, not the aggregate.
Pull Sentry event stats for the last 30 days from organization 'my-org'. Use the 'errors' category only, not transactions or replays. Write date and error count into columns A and B, formatted as YYYY-MM-DD and an integer.
When the head of engineering also wants a per-project breakdown
After seeing the org total, the follow-up question is always "which project is causing the spike?"
Pull Sentry event stats for the last 30 days from 'my-org' broken down by project. For each project, write the project name and daily error counts into a separate tab named after the project. Create one tab per project.
When you want only the last 14 days because 30 is too much context
The regression happened last week. You want a tighter window so the chart is not diluted by baseline noise.
Pull Sentry event stats for the last 14 days from organization 'my-org', broken down by day. Write date and total error count into columns A and B. Highlight in red any day where the error count is more than 20% above the 14-day average.
When you want the volume data plus an automatic regression annotation
You want SheetXAI to identify the spike day and flag it so the BI analyst does not have to find it manually.
Pull Sentry event stats for the last 30 days from 'my-org'. Write date and error count into columns A and B. In column C, write 'spike' if the day's count is more than two standard deviations above the 30-day mean, and 'normal' otherwise. Add a summary at the top showing the spike dates, the mean, and the standard deviation.
The pattern: the raw pull is one prompt. The analysis that used to take forty minutes of copy-and-formula work is part of the same prompt.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and ask it to pull your Sentry event stats into any sheet. The Sentry integration is included in every plan. See also how to export Sentry issues for sprint planning or the Sentry in Google Sheets overview.