diff --git a/docs/CHANGELOG.md b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
index 1c28be85..ae7c440f 100644
--- a/docs/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 # Changelog
 All changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
+## [9.2.7] - 2020-04-14
+
+(ixsentry) add a library method to upload a payload directly to sentry
+
 ## [9.2.6] - 2020-04-14
 
 (ixcobra) snake server / handle invalid incoming json messages + cobra subscriber in fluentd mode insert a created_at timestamp entry
diff --git a/ixsentry/ixsentry/IXSentryClient.cpp b/ixsentry/ixsentry/IXSentryClient.cpp
index 81d82ae9..a88c0a7b 100644
--- a/ixsentry/ixsentry/IXSentryClient.cpp
+++ b/ixsentry/ixsentry/IXSentryClient.cpp
@@ -64,7 +64,8 @@ namespace ix
     std::string SentryClient::computeAuthHeader()
     {
         std::string securityHeader("Sentry sentry_version=5");
-        securityHeader += ",sentry_client=ws/1.0.0";
+        securityHeader += ",sentry_client=ws/";
+        securityHeader += std::string(IX_WEBSOCKET_VERSION);
         securityHeader += ",sentry_timestamp=" + std::to_string(SentryClient::getTimestamp());
         securityHeader += ",sentry_key=" + _publicKey;
         securityHeader += ",sentry_secret=" + _secretKey;
@@ -286,4 +287,26 @@ namespace ix
 
         _httpClient->performRequest(args, onResponseCallback);
     }
+
+    void SentryClient::uploadPayload(
+        const Json::Value& payload,
+        const std::string& project,
+        const std::string& key,
+        bool verbose,
+        const OnResponseCallback& onResponseCallback)
+    {
+        auto args = _httpClient->createRequest();
+        args->extraHeaders["X-Sentry-Auth"] = SentryClient::computeAuthHeader();
+        args->verb = HttpClient::kPost;
+        args->connectTimeout = 60;
+        args->transferTimeout = 5 * 60;
+        args->followRedirects = true;
+        args->verbose = verbose;
+        args->logger = [](const std::string& msg) { ix::IXCoreLogger::Log(msg.c_str()); };
+
+        args->url = _url;
+        args->body = _jsonWriter.write(payload);
+
+        _httpClient->performRequest(args, onResponseCallback);
+    }
 } // namespace ix
diff --git a/ixsentry/ixsentry/IXSentryClient.h b/ixsentry/ixsentry/IXSentryClient.h
index 7fcd62fb..62877d6a 100644
--- a/ixsentry/ixsentry/IXSentryClient.h
+++ b/ixsentry/ixsentry/IXSentryClient.h
@@ -36,6 +36,13 @@ namespace ix
             bool verbose,
             const OnResponseCallback& onResponseCallback);
 
+        void uploadPayload(
+            const Json::Value& payload,
+            const std::string& project,
+            const std::string& key,
+            bool verbose,
+            const OnResponseCallback& onResponseCallback);
+
     private:
         int64_t getTimestamp();
         std::string computeAuthHeader();
diff --git a/ixwebsocket/IXWebSocketVersion.h b/ixwebsocket/IXWebSocketVersion.h
index 503fc49e..cf0e9500 100644
--- a/ixwebsocket/IXWebSocketVersion.h
+++ b/ixwebsocket/IXWebSocketVersion.h
@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@
 
 #pragma once
 
-#define IX_WEBSOCKET_VERSION "9.2.6"
+#define IX_WEBSOCKET_VERSION "9.2.7"