Sentry API

Use the Sentry API via direct curl calls to manage error tracking, issues, projects, and releases.

Official docs: https://docs.sentry.io/api/

When to Use

Use this skill when you need to:

• List and search issues – find errors and exceptions
• Resolve or ignore issues – manage issue status
• View issue details – get stack traces and event data
• Manage projects – list and configure projects
• Track releases – create and monitor releases
• View events – get detailed error events

Prerequisites

1. Go to Sentry → Settings → Developer Settings → Internal Integrations
2. Create a new Internal Integration with required scopes (see below)
3. Copy the generated token

export SENTRY_HOST="sentry.io" # Or your self-hosted Sentry domain
export SENTRY_TOKEN="sntrys_..." # Auth token from Internal Integration
export SENTRY_ORG="your-org-slug" # Your organization slug

Required Scopes

• project:read – List and view projects
• event:read – View issues and events
• event:write – Update issues (resolve, ignore, assign)
• release:read – View releases
• release:write – Create releases

Important: When using $VAR in a command that pipes to another command, wrap the command containing $VAR in bash -c '...'. Due to a Claude Code bug, environment variables are silently cleared when pipes are used directly.

bash -c 'curl -s "https://api.example.com" -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY"'

How to Use

All examples below assume SENTRY_HOST, SENTRY_TOKEN, and SENTRY_ORG are set.

Base URL: https://${SENTRY_HOST}/api/0

1. List Your Projects

Get all projects you have access to:

bash -c 'curl -s "https://${SENTRY_HOST}/api/0/projects/" --header "Authorization: Bearer ${SENTRY_TOKEN}"' | jq '.[] | {slug, name, platform, dateCreated}'

2. Get Project Details

Get details for a specific project:

Note: Replace my-project with your actual project slug from the “List Your Projects” output above.

PROJECT_SLUG="my-project"

bash -c 'curl -s "https://${SENTRY_HOST}/api/0/projects/${SENTRY_ORG}/${PROJECT_SLUG}/" --header "Authorization: Bearer ${SENTRY_TOKEN}"' | jq '{slug, name, platform, status, dateCreated}'

3. List Organization Issues

Get all issues across the organization:

bash -c 'curl -s "https://${SENTRY_HOST}/api/0/organizations/${SENTRY_ORG}/issues/" --header "Authorization: Bearer ${SENTRY_TOKEN}"' | jq '.[] | {id, shortId, title, culprit, status, count, userCount, firstSeen, lastSeen}

Query parameters:

• query=is:unresolved – Filter by status
• query=error.type:TypeError – Filter by error type
• sort=date – Sort by last seen (default)
• sort=new – Sort by first seen
• sort=freq – Sort by event count

4. List Project Issues

Get issues for a specific project:

Note: Replace my-project with your actual project slug from the “List Your Projects” output.

PROJECT_SLUG="my-project"

bash -c 'curl -s "https://${SENTRY_HOST}/api/0/projects/${SENTRY_ORG}/${PROJECT_SLUG}/issues/" --header "Authorization: Bearer ${SENTRY_TOKEN}"' | jq '.[] | {id, shortId, title, status, count, lastSeen}

5. Search Issues

Search issues with query:

Write to /tmp/sentry_query.txt:

is:unresolved level:error

bash -c 'curl -s -G "https://${SENTRY_HOST}/api/0/organizations/${SENTRY_ORG}/issues/" --header "Authorization: Bearer ${SENTRY_TOKEN}" --data-urlencode "query@/tmp/sentry_query.txt"' | jq '.[] | {shortId, title, level, count}

Common query filters:

• is:unresolved / is:resolved / is:ignored – By status
• level:error / level:warning / level:info – By level
• assigned:me / assigned:none – By assignee
• browser:Chrome – By browser
• os:Windows – By OS
• release:1.0.0 – By release version

6. Get Issue Details

Get details for a specific issue:

Note: Replace 123456789 with an actual issue ID from the “List Issues” or “List Project Issues” output (use the id field, not shortId).

ISSUE_ID="123456789"

bash -c 'curl -s "https://${SENTRY_HOST}/api/0/organizations/${SENTRY_ORG}/issues/${ISSUE_ID}/" --header "Authorization: Bearer ${SENTRY_TOKEN}"' | jq '{id, shortId, title, culprit, status, level, count, userCount, firstSeen, lastSeen, assignedTo}'

7. Get Latest Event for Issue

Get the most recent event for an issue:

Note: Replace 123456789 with an actual issue ID from the “List Issues” output.

ISSUE_ID="123456789"

bash -c 'curl -s "https://${SENTRY_HOST}/api/0/organizations/${SENTRY_ORG}/issues/${ISSUE_ID}/events/latest/" --header "Authorization: Bearer ${SENTRY_TOKEN}"' | jq '{eventID, message, platform, dateCreated, tags, contexts}'

8. List Issue Events

Get all events for an issue:

Note: Replace 123456789 with an actual issue ID from the “List Issues” output.

ISSUE_ID="123456789"

bash -c 'curl -s "https://${SENTRY_HOST}/api/0/organizations/${SENTRY_ORG}/issues/${ISSUE_ID}/events/" --header "Authorization: Bearer ${SENTRY_TOKEN}"' | jq '.[] | {eventID, message, dateCreated}

9. Resolve Issue

Mark an issue as resolved:

Note: Replace 123456789 with an actual issue ID from the “List Issues” output.

ISSUE_ID="123456789"

Write to /tmp/sentry_request.json:

{
  "status": "resolved"
}

Then run:

bash -c 'curl -s -X PUT "https://${SENTRY_HOST}/api/0/organizations/${SENTRY_ORG}/issues/${ISSUE_ID}/" --header "Authorization: Bearer ${SENTRY_TOKEN}" --header "Content-Type: application/json" -d @/tmp/sentry_request.json' | jq '{id, shortId, status}'

10. Resolve in Next Release

Mark issue as resolved in next release:

Note: Replace 123456789 with an actual issue ID from the “List Issues” output.

ISSUE_ID="123456789"

Write to /tmp/sentry_request.json:

{
  "status": "resolvedInNextRelease"
}

Then run:

bash -c 'curl -s -X PUT "https://${SENTRY_HOST}/api/0/organizations/${SENTRY_ORG}/issues/${ISSUE_ID}/" --header "Authorization: Bearer ${SENTRY_TOKEN}" --header "Content-Type: application/json" -d @/tmp/sentry_request.json' | jq '{id, shortId, status}'

11. Ignore Issue

Ignore an issue:

Note: Replace 123456789 with an actual issue ID from the “List Issues” output.

ISSUE_ID="123456789"

Write to /tmp/sentry_request.json:

{
  "status": "ignored"
}

Then run:

bash -c 'curl -s -X PUT "https://${SENTRY_HOST}/api/0/organizations/${SENTRY_ORG}/issues/${ISSUE_ID}/" --header "Authorization: Bearer ${SENTRY_TOKEN}" --header "Content-Type: application/json" -d @/tmp/sentry_request.json' | jq '{id, shortId, status}'

Ignore with duration (in minutes):

Write to /tmp/sentry_request.json:

{
  "status": "ignored",
  "statusDetails": {
    "ignoreDuration": 60
  }
}

Then run:

bash -c 'curl -s -X PUT "https://${SENTRY_HOST}/api/0/organizations/${SENTRY_ORG}/issues/${ISSUE_ID}/" --header "Authorization: Bearer ${SENTRY_TOKEN}" --header "Content-Type: application/json" -d @/tmp/sentry_request.json' | jq '{id, shortId, status}'

12. Unresolve Issue

Reopen a resolved issue:

Note: Replace 123456789 with an actual issue ID from the “List Issues” output.

ISSUE_ID="123456789"

Write to /tmp/sentry_request.json:

{
  "status": "unresolved"
}

Then run:

bash -c 'curl -s -X PUT "https://${SENTRY_HOST}/api/0/organizations/${SENTRY_ORG}/issues/${ISSUE_ID}/" --header "Authorization: Bearer ${SENTRY_TOKEN}" --header "Content-Type: application/json" -d @/tmp/sentry_request.json' | jq '{id, shortId, status}'

13. Assign Issue

Assign an issue to a user:

Note: Replace 123456789 with an actual issue ID from the “List Issues” output. Replace <user-email> with a valid user email from your Sentry organization members.

Write to /tmp/sentry_request.json:

{
  "assignedTo": "<user-email>"
}

Then run:

bash -c 'curl -s -X PUT "https://${SENTRY_HOST}/api/0/organizations/${SENTRY_ORG}/issues/${ISSUE_ID}/" --header "Authorization: Bearer ${SENTRY_TOKEN}" --header "Content-Type: application/json" -d @/tmp/sentry_request.json' | jq '{id, shortId, assignedTo}'

Note: Replace 123456789 in the URL with the actual issue ID from the “List Issues” output.

14. Bulk Update Issues

Update multiple issues at once:

Note: Replace 123456789 and 987654321 with actual issue IDs from the “List Issues” output.

Write to /tmp/sentry_request.json:

{
  "id": ["123456789", "987654321"],
  "status": "resolved"
}

Then run:

bash -c 'curl -s -X PUT "https://${SENTRY_HOST}/api/0/organizations/${SENTRY_ORG}/issues/" --header "Authorization: Bearer ${SENTRY_TOKEN}" --header "Content-Type: application/json" -d @/tmp/sentry_request.json'

15. Delete Issue

Delete an issue (requires admin permissions):

Note: Replace 123456789 with an actual issue ID from the “List Issues” output.

ISSUE_ID="123456789"

bash -c 'curl -s -X DELETE "https://${SENTRY_HOST}/api/0/organizations/${SENTRY_ORG}/issues/${ISSUE_ID}/" --header "Authorization: Bearer ${SENTRY_TOKEN}" -w "\nHTTP Status: %{http_code}"'

16. List Releases

Get all releases for the organization:

bash -c 'curl -s "https://${SENTRY_HOST}/api/0/organizations/${SENTRY_ORG}/releases/" --header "Authorization: Bearer ${SENTRY_TOKEN}"' | jq '.[] | {version, dateCreated, newGroups, projects: [.projects[].slug]}'

17. Get Release Details

Get details for a specific release:

Note: Replace 1.0.0 with an actual release version from the “List Releases” output.

RELEASE_VERSION="1.0.0"

bash -c 'curl -s "https://${SENTRY_HOST}/api/0/organizations/${SENTRY_ORG}/releases/${RELEASE_VERSION}/" --header "Authorization: Bearer ${SENTRY_TOKEN}"' | jq '{version, dateCreated, dateReleased, newGroups, lastEvent, projects}'

18. Create Release

Create a new release:

Note: Replace <your-project-slug> with your actual project slug from the “List Your Projects” output.

Write to /tmp/sentry_request.json:

{
  "version": "1.0.1",
  "projects": ["<your-project-slug>"]
}

Then run:

bash -c 'curl -s -X POST "https://${SENTRY_HOST}/api/0/organizations/${SENTRY_ORG}/releases/" --header "Authorization: Bearer ${SENTRY_TOKEN}" --header "Content-Type: application/json" -d @/tmp/sentry_request.json' | jq '{version, dateCreated}'

19. Create Release with Commits

Create release with associated commits:

Note: Replace <your-project-slug> with your actual project slug from the “List Your Projects” output.

Write to /tmp/sentry_request.json:

{
  "version": "1.0.2",
  "projects": ["<your-project-slug>"],
  "refs": [
    {
      "repository": "owner/repo",
      "commit": "abc123def456"
    }
  ]
}

Then run:

bash -c 'curl -s -X POST "https://${SENTRY_HOST}/api/0/organizations/${SENTRY_ORG}/releases/" --header "Authorization: Bearer ${SENTRY_TOKEN}" --header "Content-Type: application/json" -d @/tmp/sentry_request.json' | jq '{version, dateCreated}'

20. List Project Error Events

Get recent error events for a project:

Note: Replace my-project with your actual project slug from the “List Your Projects” output.

PROJECT_SLUG="my-project"

bash -c 'curl -s "https://${SENTRY_HOST}/api/0/projects/${SENTRY_ORG}/${PROJECT_SLUG}/events/" --header "Authorization: Bearer ${SENTRY_TOKEN}"' | jq '.[] | {eventID, title, message, dateCreated}'

Issue Status Values

Guidelines

1. Use organization slug: Most endpoints use org slug, not ID
2. Pagination: Use cursor parameter for paginated results
3. Query syntax: Use Sentry’s query language for powerful filtering
4. Rate limits: Sentry has rate limits; implement backoff for 429 responses
5. Self-hosted: For self-hosted Sentry, set SENTRY_HOST to your domain
6. Scopes matter: Ensure your token has required scopes for each operation