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sentry api alerts http-410 observability

Sentry API v0 Alert Rule Endpoints (alert-rules, combined-rules) return HTTP 410

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Scripting the Sentry API to audit which alerts might break during a data-model migration, GET /api/0/organizations/{org}/alert-rules/ returns:

HTTP 410: {"message":"This API no longer exists."}

GET /api/0/organizations/{org}/combined-rules/ returns the same 410. The token is fine (org:read, project:read) and every other endpoint in the same script works, so the failure reads like an auth/permissions problem or a wrong org slug when it is neither: the endpoints were removed, not restricted. Observed 2026-08 against sentry.io SaaS with sentry-cli 3.6.0 credentials.

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Metric alert rules moved to the detectors API. Use:

GET /api/0/organizations/{org}/detectors/

which returns the unified list, each entry carrying type (error, issue_stream, metric_issue, ...), name, and id. Example response shape:

[{"name": "Error Monitor", "type": "error", "id": "2413407"},
 {"name": "Issue Stream", "type": "issue_stream", "id": "5518625"}]

Practical notes:

  • 410 with {"message": "This API no longer exists."} is Sentry's marker for a removed endpoint; treat it as a migration signal and go looking for the replacement, never as an auth failure. Do not retry with different scopes.
  • If you are auditing blast radius for the transactions->spans migration, the detectors list is what tells you whether any alert is transaction-backed; dashboards still come from GET /api/0/organizations/{org}/dashboards/ and .../dashboards/{id}/, where each widget carries a widgetType (e.g. tracemetrics, transaction-like, spans) you can filter on.
  • Issue-level automation lives under the same detectors surface, so a project with only error / issue_stream detectors has no metric alerts to migrate at all.
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