The Scenario
You are a release manager. The quarter just closed and the VP of Engineering asked for a release retrospective before the all-hands on Friday. She wants to know: how many releases went out in the last ninety days, which projects shipped most frequently, and whether any releases had zero deployments.
The data is in Sentry. The retro is in three days.
The slow version:
- Open Sentry, navigate to Releases
- Start scrolling, take notes on version names and dates
- Click into each release to find the deployment count
- Realize you cannot see all four projects at once without switching the project filter
- Open a Google Sheet, start typing rows manually
- Two hours later you have the last thirty days for two of the four projects.
The fast version is one prompt.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI reads your Sentry release history and writes it into the sheet, so you do not have to navigate project by project or take notes by hand.
Open the SheetXAI sidebar and type:
List all Sentry releases for organization 'my-org' from the last 90 days and write each release's version, date created, project, and deployment count into this sheet, one row per release. Sort by date created descending.
SheetXAI calls the Sentry releases API, paginates through the full ninety-day window across all projects, and writes every release into the sheet. The retro artifact is ready before lunch.
What You Get
A structured release log with one row per release:
- Version — the release identifier, exactly as it appears in Sentry
- Date created — when the release was registered
- Project — which project it belongs to
- Deployment count — how many environments it was deployed to
Sort the deployment count column ascending and the releases with zero deployments float to the top. That is the first finding for the retro, releases that were registered but never deployed.
The log is ninety rows or more depending on your release cadence. Sorting, filtering, and pivot tables in Google Sheets handle the rest of the analysis.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Release retrospectives usually lead to follow-up questions that require the raw data shaped differently.
When release versions are not human-readable
Your CI system generates version strings like sha-3f2a1c and the VP wants to see the branch name or the PR title instead.
List all Sentry releases from the last 90 days for 'my-org'. For each release, include the version, date created, project, deployment count, and the commit count if available. Write the results into this sheet. In column F, write 'readable' if the version contains a dot or dash that suggests semantic versioning, otherwise write 'hash'.
When you need to see which environments each release was deployed to
"Deployment count" is one number. The VP wants to know if releases are hitting production or just staging.
List all Sentry releases from the last 90 days for 'my-org'. For each release, write the version, date created, project, and the list of environments it was deployed to, comma-separated, into columns A through E.
When you only want releases for a specific project
The retro is project-specific this quarter. Only the backend-api project matters.
List all Sentry releases for project 'backend-api' in organization 'my-org' from the last 90 days. Write version, date created, and deployment count into columns A through C. Add a summary row at the bottom showing total releases and average deployment count.
When you want the full retrospective artifact: release log, frequency analysis, and zero-deployment flag in one shot
The VP wants the summary table and the raw list in the same sheet, not two separate requests.
List all Sentry releases from the last 90 days for 'my-org'. Write version, date created, project, and deployment count into rows 3 and below. In rows 1 and 2, write a summary: total release count, count by project, and count of releases with zero deployments. In column E, write 'no deploy' if deployment count is zero and leave blank otherwise.
The pattern: one prompt gets you the data. The follow-up analysis is part of the same prompt, not a second session.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and ask it to pull your Sentry release history before your next retrospective. The Sentry integration is included in every plan. See also how to pull Sentry event volume data into a sheet or the Sentry in Google Sheets overview.