bigquery-observability
bigquery-observability is an agent skill published by google. It lives in the google/skills repository, which has 21,580 GitHub stars and is licensed under Apache-2.0; we last read it on 2026-10-21.
This tool provides best practices for data retrieval, tool selection guidance, and performant SQL query syntax for BigQuery telemetry across INFORMATION_SCHEMA, Cloud Monitoring, and the REST API. It is used for diagnosing single-job performance bottlenecks and analyzing slot contention, job concurrency, and queue latency, among other metrics.
Install
skills is a generic installer for any repository of Claude agent skills -- it reads google/skills’s own structure rather than assuming one, the same way this page reads the skill’s own SKILL.md rather than assuming a format.
npx skills add google/skills
Maintenance
Provides data-retrieval best practices, tool selection guidance, and performant SQL query syntax for BigQuery telemetry across INFORMATION_SCHEMA, Cloud Monitoring, and the REST API. Use when the telemetry to fetch is already known, selecting telemetry tools, writing performant INFORMATION_SCHEMA queries, retrieving telemetry for diagnosing single-job performance bottlenecks, investigating slot contention, job concurrency and queue latency, analyzing reservation capacity, utilization and autoscaling saturation, or auditing capacity-based and on-demand compute and storage resource billable usage. Don't use for root-cause diagnosis or symptom troubleshooting when the cause is unknown (use bigquery-troubleshooting first), or for writing or optimizing business logic SQL (use bigquery-optimization).
Common questions about bigquery-observability
- What does bigquery-observability do?
- This tool provides best practices for data retrieval, tool selection guidance, and performant SQL query syntax for BigQuery telemetry across INFORMATION_SCHEMA, Cloud Monitoring, and the REST API. It is used for diagnosing single-job performance bottlenecks and analyzing slot contention, job concurrency, and queue latency, among other metrics.
- How do I install bigquery-observability?
- Run npx skills add google/skills. The skills installer reads the repository’s own structure, so it works for any repository of agent skills.
- Who publishes bigquery-observability?
- google.
- Is bigquery-observability maintained, and what licence does it use?
- Its repository has 21,580 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-10-25. The repository declares the Apache-2.0 licence.