Search Sentry in Plain English

Did you know you can search your Sentry data the way you'd ask a teammate? In this video, I use plain English to query traces, metrics and logs in Sentry's Explore pages, and Sentry turns each question into a real query for me.

Using my skateboard parts store as the example, I ask three questions:

• Which database queries had the highest p95 duration over the last 7 days? (Traces)
• What was the p95 Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) per page? (Metrics)
• Which skate disciplines had the most setup searches? (Logs)

For each one, Sentry picks the filter, the visualization, the group-by and the sort order. I didn't need to know the span operation, the metric name or the exact log message. Once you have the result, you can add it to a dashboard or turn it into a monitor so you keep an eye on it.

Try it on your own projects: https://sentry.io
Explore docs: https://docs.sentry.io/product/explore/

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Chapters

00:00 Search Sentry in plain English

00:30 Traces: slowest database queries

01:17 Metrics: LCP per page

02:17 Logs: setup searches by discipline

03:07 Save to a dashboard or monitor