Query logs and traces with SQL in Observability Analytics

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To effectively operate and troubleshoot applications, developers and site reliability engineers (SREs) need to understand the full context of their system's behavior, typically as part of their logging and observability tooling. Today, we’re excited to announce a variety of new capabilities in our Google Cloud Observability suite:

  1. Log Analytics is now Observability Analytics.
  2. Trace data within Observability Analytics is generally available (GA).
  3. The Observability API for management and configuration is GA.

Together, these bring logs and traces together into a unified experience, helping you go from viewing high-level trends to deep, contextual, root-cause analysis for agentic as well as traditional workloads, and to configure and manage those workloads programmatically, as part of observability buckets.

Further, support for SQL in Cloud Trace is an important new tool in your toolbelt. You can, for instance, write a single SQL query that joins your application logs with your distributed trace spans and...

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