November 2, 2026 · Google CloudFeature

BigQuery adds data agent monitoring in Cloud Observability, generally available

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Analytics

You can now monitor the performance, adoption, latency, and costs of your data agents and their conversations by using Google Cloud Observability in BigQuery. This feature is generally available (GA).

The Data Engineering Agent now supports BigQuery AI, ML, and object functions and statements in generated Dataform SQLX pipelines and agent instruction files.

This feature is generally available (GA).

Text from the Google Cloud release notes, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Source: Google Cloud release notes.

Source: Google Cloud release notes

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