Retrieve and interpret Sentry error budget and release performance data via the Sentry API
domain: sentry.io · 6 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Authenticate against the Sentry API using a User Auth Token or Internal Integration token with the project:read scope; all API endpoints use the base URL https://sentry.io/api/0/ for Sentry Cloud.
Retrieve project statistics via GET /organizations/{org_slug}/stats_v2/ with the fields parameter set to ['sum(times_seen)'] and query filtered by error, transaction, or session event types; specify the stat (events), groupBy (project), interval (1h), and date range to get time-series error counts.
Fetch release health data via GET /organizations/{org_slug}/releases/{version}/stats/ to retrieve crash-free session and crash-free user rates for a specific release; compare across releases to detect regressions introduced by a deployment.
Compute an error rate SLI from the stats API by dividing error events by total transaction events over the same time window; this approximates an availability SLI based on error occurrence without requiring Sentry-native SLO features.
Query transaction performance for a release via GET /organizations/{org_slug}/events/ with the query parameter scoped to transaction events, a dataset parameter of discover, and fields including p75(transaction.duration) and failure_rate() to extract latency and error rate per transaction.
Generate a report by iterating over releases chronologically, fetching crash-free rates and p75 latency for each, and comparing against configured thresholds; output structured data for a dashboard or post it to a reporting channel using webhooks.
Known gotchas
The Sentry stats API aggregates data at the project and organization level, not at the individual issue level; for issue-level trend data use the Issues API endpoint which supports orderBy=date and query filters, but note it returns counts rather than rates.
Sentry release health (crash-free rates) is session-based and requires the Sentry SDK to be configured with release and session tracking enabled; if sessions are not initialized in the SDK, the releases endpoint returns null or 0% for crash-free metrics.
API rate limits on the Sentry Cloud API are per-token and per-organization; scripts that query stats for many projects or releases in tight loops will hit 429 rate limits — implement exponential backoff and respect Retry-After headers.
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