# BigQuery Observability (agent skill)

> BigQuery Observability is an agent skill (a SKILL.md file) from google/skills. It provides data-retrieval best practices, tool selection guidance, and performant SQL query syntax for BigQuery telemetry across INFORMATIONSCHEMA, Cloud Monitoring, and the REST API. It works with Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI and has 20,994 GitHub stars across a repository of 6 listed skills.

Provides data-retrieval best practices, tool selection guidance, and performant SQL query syntax for BigQuery telemetry across INFORMATIONSCHEMA, Cloud Monitoring, and the REST API. Use when the telemetry to fetch is already known, selecting telemetry tools, writing performant INFORMATIONSCHEMA queries, retrieving telemetry for diagnosing single-job performance bottlenecks, investigating slot contention, job concurrency and queue latency, analyzing reservation capacity, utilization and…

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/google/skills |
| Skill path | skills/cloud/bigquery-observability/SKILL.md |
| Skill name | bigquery-observability |
| GitHub stars | 20,994 |
| Installs on skills.sh | not listed |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Skills in repo | 6 |
| Plugin marketplace | google-plugins |
| Official | yes |
| Works with | Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI |
| Category | Data & analysis |
| Last commit | Oct 6, 2026 |

## When it triggers

- Use when the telemetry to fetch is already known, selecting telemetry tools, writing performant INFORMATIONSCHEMA queries, retrieving telemetry for diagnosing single-job performance bottlenecks, investigating slot contention, job concurrenc
- 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).

## Add this skill

### Claude Code

```sh
/plugin marketplace add google/skills
/plugin   # browse google-plugins and install the plugin that contains bigquery-observability
```

In the Claude apps, zip the skill folder and upload it under Customize > Skills > + > Upload a skill (code execution must be on).

### ChatGPT / Codex

```sh
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/google/skills.git
cp -r skills/skills/cloud/bigquery-observability .agents/skills/bigquery-observability   # repo; ~/.agents/skills for all projects
```

### Cursor

```sh
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/google/skills.git
cp -r skills/skills/cloud/bigquery-observability .cursor/skills/bigquery-observability   # project; ~/.cursor/skills for all projects
```

Sources (checked 2026-10-07): https://code.claude.com/docs/en/skills, https://support.claude.com/en/articles/12512180-using-skills-in-claude, https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/build-skills, https://cursor.com/docs/context/skills

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