Breaking: Starting August 31, 2026, you can no longer create or edit trace sinks.

Starting August 31, 2026, you can no longer create or edit trace sinks. Trace sinks were deprecated on February 18, 2026. For more information, see Export trace spans with sinks deprecation.

For information about how to analyze your trace data using SQL, see the following documents:

• Query and analyze traces using Observability Analytics • Query a linked BigQuery dataset