Google Cloud advises storing agent traces in BigQuery for long-term retention

AIGoogle Cloud Tech says querying agent traces is the real hurdle once traces are collected. It says hand-writing SQL to unnest polymorphic JSON records across thousands of agent iterations is tedious and error-prone.

AIGoogle Cloud Tech says default login expires after 30 days, so traces should be persisted elsewhere if kept longer. It recommends routing OpenTelemetry or agent logs directly into a BigQuery sink for long-term analytics.