sentry log view

View detailed information about a specific Sentry log entry

sentry log view

View detailed information about a Sentry log entry by its ID.

Usage

sentry log view [<org>/<project>] <log-id>

Target Specification

sentry log view <log-id>              # auto-detect from DSN or config
sentry log view <org>/<proj> <log-id> # explicit org and project
sentry log view <project> <log-id>    # find project across all orgs

The log ID is the 32-character hexadecimal identifier shown in log listings.

Arguments

log-id · string · required

32-character hexadecimal log entry identifier

Example:

sentry log view a1b2c3d4e5f6a7b8c9d0e1f2a3b4c5d6

target · string

Optional target in format <org>/<project> or <project> (searches across orgs)

If not provided, auto-detects from DSN in working directory or config defaults.

Flags

--json · boolean · default: "false"

Output log data as JSON

Example:

sentry log view a1b2c3d4e5f6a7b8c9d0e1f2a3b4c5d6 --json

--web · boolean · default: "false"

Open the log entry in your default web browser instead of displaying in terminal

Alias: -w

Example:

sentry log view a1b2c3d4e5f6a7b8c9d0e1f2a3b4c5d6 -w

Examples

View a log entry (auto-detect context)

sentry log view a1b2c3d4e5f6a7b8c9d0e1f2a3b4c5d6

View log with explicit org/project

sentry log view my-org/my-project a1b2c3d4e5f6a7b8c9d0e1f2a3b4c5d6

View log with project slug (searches across orgs)

sentry log view my-project a1b2c3d4e5f6a7b8c9d0e1f2a3b4c5d6

Open log in browser

sentry log view a1b2c3d4e5f6a7b8c9d0e1f2a3b4c5d6 --web
sentry log view a1b2c3d4e5f6a7b8c9d0e1f2a3b4c5d6 -w

Output as JSON

sentry log view a1b2c3d4e5f6a7b8c9d0e1f2a3b4c5d6 --json

Sample Output

Human-Readable Format

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Log Entry: a1b2c3d4e5f6a7b8c9d0e1f2a3b4c5d6
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Timestamp:   2024-03-05 14:23:45 UTC
Severity:    error
Message:     Database connection timeout after 5000ms
Project:     my-org/my-project

Trace:       abc123def456abc123def456abc123de
Span:        def456abc123def456abc123def456ab

Context:
  operation:     database.query
  query:         SELECT * FROM users WHERE active = true
  duration_ms:   5234
  retry_count:   3

Tags:
  environment:   production
  server.name:   web-01
  region:        us-west-2

Link: https://sentry.io/organizations/my-org/logs/a1b2c3d4e5f6a7b8c9d0e1f2a3b4c5d6/

Detected from .env.local

JSON Format

{
  "id": "a1b2c3d4e5f6a7b8c9d0e1f2a3b4c5d6",
  "timestamp": "2024-03-05T14:23:45Z",
  "timestamp_precise": 1709649825000000000,
  "severity": "error",
  "message": "Database connection timeout after 5000ms",
  "trace": "abc123def456abc123def456abc123de",
  "span": "def456abc123def456abc123def456ab",
  "context": {
    "operation": "database.query",
    "query": "SELECT * FROM users WHERE active = true",
    "duration_ms": 5234,
    "retry_count": 3
  },
  "tags": {
    "environment": "production",
    "server.name": "web-01",
    "region": "us-west-2"
  },
  "project": {
    "slug": "my-project",
    "name": "My Project"
  }
}

Notes

• Organization and project context is required. If not provided explicitly, it’s resolved from DSN detection or config defaults.
• Log entries are typically retained for 90 days in Sentry.
• The -w flag is useful for quickly jumping to the Sentry web UI for more context around the log entry.
• Use sentry trace view <trace-id> to see the full trace and span tree associated with this log entry.

See Also

• sentry log list - List and stream logs from projects
• sentry trace view - View trace details with span tree
• sentry trace logs - List logs for a specific trace