diff --git a/pkg/sentry/level.zig b/pkg/sentry/level.zig
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4b618678a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/sentry/level.zig
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+/// sentry_level_t
+pub const Level = enum(c_int) {
+    debug = -1,
+    info = 0,
+    warning = 1,
+    err = 2,
+    fatal = 3,
+};
diff --git a/pkg/sentry/main.zig b/pkg/sentry/main.zig
index 6c1940f60..b8133800f 100644
--- a/pkg/sentry/main.zig
+++ b/pkg/sentry/main.zig
@@ -1,5 +1,15 @@
 pub const c = @import("c.zig").c;
 
+pub const Level = @import("level.zig").Level;
+pub const Value = @import("value.zig").Value;
+pub const UUID = @import("uuid.zig").UUID;
+
+pub fn captureEvent(value: Value) ?UUID {
+    const uuid: UUID = .{ .value = c.sentry_capture_event(value.value) };
+    if (uuid.isNil()) return null;
+    return uuid;
+}
+
 test {
     @import("std").testing.refAllDecls(@This());
 }
diff --git a/pkg/sentry/uuid.zig b/pkg/sentry/uuid.zig
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d1e234dda
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/sentry/uuid.zig
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+const std = @import("std");
+const assert = std.debug.assert;
+const c = @import("c.zig").c;
+
+/// sentry_uuid_t
+pub const UUID = struct {
+    value: c.sentry_uuid_t,
+
+    pub fn isNil(self: UUID) bool {
+        return c.sentry_uuid_is_nil(&self.value) != 0;
+    }
+
+    pub fn string(self: UUID) [37]u8 {
+        var buf: [37]u8 = undefined;
+        c.sentry_uuid_as_string(&self.value, &buf);
+        return buf;
+    }
+};
diff --git a/pkg/sentry/value.zig b/pkg/sentry/value.zig
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6df70d6d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/sentry/value.zig
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+const std = @import("std");
+const assert = std.debug.assert;
+const c = @import("c.zig").c;
+const Level = @import("level.zig").Level;
+
+/// sentry_value_t
+pub const Value = struct {
+    /// The underlying value. This is a union that could be represented with
+    /// an extern union but I don't want to risk C ABI issues so we wrap it
+    /// in a struct.
+    value: c.sentry_value_t,
+
+    pub fn initMessageEvent(
+        level: Level,
+        logger: ?[]const u8,
+        message: []const u8,
+    ) Value {
+        return .{ .value = c.sentry_value_new_message_event_n(
+            @intFromEnum(level),
+            if (logger) |v| v.ptr else null,
+            if (logger) |v| v.len else 0,
+            message.ptr,
+            message.len,
+        ) };
+    }
+
+    pub fn decref(self: Value) void {
+        c.sentry_value_decref(self.value);
+    }
+
+    pub fn incref(self: Value) Value {
+        c.sentry_value_incref(self.value);
+    }
+};