BigQuery Agent Analytics SDK
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The BigQuery Agent Analytics SDK is an open-source Python toolkit for analyzing AI agent telemetry stored in BigQuery. It provides observability (trace reconstruction, DAG visualization), evaluation (LLM-as-Judge, trajectory matching, multi-trial pass@k), and advanced analytics (Agent Context Graph for decision-trace extraction, drift detection, memory service). Built on top of BigQuery Agent Analytics, it's designed for ML engineers running agents in production who need to measure quality, understand behavior, and detect regressions at scale.
Installation
# Core SDKpip install bigquery-agent-analytics
# With LLM judge supportpip install bigquery-agent-analytics[llm]
# With BigFrames supportpip install bigquery-agent-analytics[bigframes]
# All featurespip install bigquery-agent-analytics[llm,bigframes]Prerequisites:
- Python 3.10+
- Google Cloud project with BigQuery enabled
- Agent traces in BigQuery (via ADK BigQuery Trace Exporter)
GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALSorgcloud auth application-default loginconfigured
Core Client API
Initialize Client
from bigquery_agent_analytics import Client
# Basic initializationclient = Client( project_id="my-gcp-project", dataset_id="agent_analytics")
# With custom locationclient = Client( project_id="my-project", dataset_id="agent_traces", location="US")Retrieve and Visualize Traces
# Get a single tracetrace = client.get_trace("trace-abc-123")
# Render as ASCII DAGtrace.render()
# Get trace as dictionarytrace_dict = trace.to_dict()
# Get all traces for a sessiontraces = client.get_traces_for_session("session-xyz-456")for trace in traces: print(f"Trace: {trace.trace_id}, Events: {len(trace.events)}")
# Query traces by time rangefrom datetime import datetime, timedeltaend_time = datetime.utcnow()start_time = end_time - timedelta(hours=24)
recent_traces = client.get_traces( start_time=start_time, end_time=end_time, limit=100)Event Semantics
from bigquery_agent_analytics.event_semantics import ( is_agent_start, is_agent_end, is_tool_invocation, is_llm_call, get_input_text, get_output_text)
for event in trace.events: if is_agent_start(event): print(f"Agent started: {get_input_text(event)}") elif is_tool_invocation(event): print(f"Tool called: {event.get('tool_name')}") elif is_llm_call(event): print(f"LLM invoked: {event.get('model_name')}") elif is_agent_end(event): print(f"Agent response: {get_output_text(event)}")CLI Commands
The SDK includes bqaa (or bq-agent-sdk) CLI with 12+ commands:
Diagnostics
# Check connectivity and permissionsbqaa diagnose --project-id $PROJECT_ID --dataset-id agent_analytics
# List available tracesbqaa list-traces --project-id $PROJECT_ID --dataset-id agent_analytics --limit 10
# Inspect a specific tracebqaa inspect-trace --project-id $PROJECT_ID --dataset-id agent_analytics \ --trace-id "trace-abc-123"
# Seed sample events for testingbqaa seed-events --project-id $PROJECT_ID --dataset-id agent_analytics \ --sessions 5Views Management
# Create per-event-type BigQuery viewsbqaa create-views --project-id $PROJECT_ID --dataset-id agent_analytics
# List created viewsbqaa list-views --project-id $PROJECT_ID --dataset-id agent_analytics
# Drop viewsbqaa drop-views --project-id $PROJECT_ID --dataset-id agent_analyticsEvaluation
# Run system evaluation (latency, tokens, cost)bqaa evaluate --project-id $PROJECT_ID --dataset-id agent_analytics \ --evaluator system --output-table eval_results
# Run LLM-as-Judge evaluationbqaa evaluate --project-id $PROJECT_ID --dataset-id agent_analytics \ --evaluator llm-judge --model-name gemini-2.0-flash-exp \ --criteria correctness,hallucination --output-table llm_eval_results
# Run trajectory evaluationbqaa evaluate-trajectory --project-id $PROJECT_ID --dataset-id agent_analytics \ --golden-path "plan,execute,verify" --match-strategy exactAgent Context Graph
# Extract decision traces from agent context graphbqaa context-graph --project-id $PROJECT_ID --dataset-id agent_analytics \ --graph agent_decisions_graph --lookback-hours 24 --format json
# Schedule periodic materialization (creates Cloud Scheduler + Cloud Run)bqaa schedule-context-graph --project-id $PROJECT_ID \ --dataset-id agent_analytics --graph agent_decisions_graph \ --cron "0 */6 * * *" --region us-central1Observability
Create Event-Type Views
from bigquery_agent_analytics.views import ViewManager
view_manager = ViewManager(client)
# Create all standard viewsview_manager.create_all_views()
# List created viewsviews = view_manager.list_views()for view in views: print(f"{view['view_name']}: {view['event_type']}")
# Query a specific viewagent_starts = client.query(""" SELECT session_id, trace_id, input_text, timestamp FROM `my-project.agent_analytics.agent_start_events` WHERE DATE(timestamp) = CURRENT_DATE() LIMIT 10""")
for row in agent_starts: print(f"{row.session_id}: {row.input_text}")Trace Visualization
# Render trace as texttrace.render()
# Export trace to JSONimport jsonwith open("trace.json", "w") as f: json.dump(trace.to_dict(), f, indent=2)
# Analyze trace structureprint(f"Total events: {len(trace.events)}")print(f"Trace duration: {trace.duration_ms}ms")print(f"Session: {trace.session_id}")
# Filter eventstool_events = [e for e in trace.events if is_tool_invocation(e)]print(f"Tool invocations: {len(tool_events)}")Evaluation
System Evaluator (Code-Based Metrics)
from bigquery_agent_analytics.evaluators import SystemEvaluator
evaluator = SystemEvaluator(client)
# Run evaluation on recent tracesresults = evaluator.evaluate( start_time=datetime.utcnow() - timedelta(hours=24), end_time=datetime.utcnow())
# Results include: latency, token_count, turn_count, error_rate, costfor result in results: print(f"Trace {result['trace_id']}: " f"latency={result['latency_ms']}ms, " f"tokens={result['token_count']}, " f"cost=${result['cost']:.4f}")
# Save to BigQueryevaluator.save_results(results, output_table="eval_results")LLM-as-Judge Evaluation
from bigquery_agent_analytics.evaluators import LLMAsJudge
judge = LLMAsJudge( client=client, model_name="gemini-2.0-flash-exp", criteria=["correctness", "hallucination", "helpfulness"])
# Evaluate tracesllm_results = judge.evaluate_traces( trace_ids=["trace-1", "trace-2", "trace-3"])
# Results include scores for each criterion (0.0-1.0)for result in llm_results: print(f"Trace {result['trace_id']}:") print(f" Correctness: {result['correctness_score']:.2f}") print(f" Hallucination: {result['hallucination_score']:.2f}") print(f" Helpfulness: {result['helpfulness_score']:.2f}")
# Save to BigQueryjudge.save_results(llm_results, output_table="llm_eval_results")Trajectory Matching
from bigquery_agent_analytics.trace_evaluator import TrajectoryEvaluator
trajectory_eval = TrajectoryEvaluator(client)
# Define golden path (sequence of event types or tool names)golden_path = ["search_documents", "extract_entities", "summarize"]
# Exact matchingexact_matches = trajectory_eval.evaluate( trace_ids=["trace-1", "trace-2"], golden_path=golden_path, match_strategy="exact")
# In-order matching (allows extra steps)in_order_matches = trajectory_eval.evaluate( trace_ids=["trace-1", "trace-2"], golden_path=golden_path, match_strategy="in_order")
# Any-order matching (all steps present, any order)any_order_matches = trajectory_eval.evaluate( trace_ids=["trace-1", "trace-2"], golden_path=golden_path, match_strategy="any_order")
for result in exact_matches: print(f"Trace {result['trace_id']}: " f"matches={result['matches']}, " f"similarity={result['similarity']:.2f}")Multi-Trial Evaluation (pass@k)
from bigquery_agent_analytics.multi_trial import MultiTrialEvaluator
multi_trial = MultiTrialEvaluator(client)
# Run N trials per task and compute pass@kresults = multi_trial.evaluate( task_ids=["task-1", "task-2", "task-3"], trials_per_task=5, k_values=[1, 3, 5], evaluation_fn=lambda trace: judge.evaluate_traces([trace.trace_id])[0])
# Results include pass@1, pass@3, pass@5 metricsfor task_result in results: print(f"Task {task_result['task_id']}:") print(f" pass@1: {task_result['pass_at_1']:.2%}") print(f" pass@3: {task_result['pass_at_3']:.2%}") print(f" pass@5: {task_result['pass_at_5']:.2%}")Grader Composition
from bigquery_agent_analytics.grader_pipeline import ( GraderPipeline, WeightedAverageStrategy, BinaryThresholdStrategy, MajorityVoteStrategy)
# Weighted average of multiple evaluatorspipeline = GraderPipeline(strategy=WeightedAverageStrategy())pipeline.add_grader( evaluator=judge, criteria="correctness", weight=0.6)pipeline.add_grader( evaluator=judge, criteria="helpfulness", weight=0.4)
composite_score = pipeline.evaluate(trace_id="trace-123")print(f"Composite score: {composite_score:.2f}")
# Binary threshold (pass/fail)binary_pipeline = GraderPipeline(strategy=BinaryThresholdStrategy(threshold=0.7))binary_pipeline.add_grader(evaluator=judge, criteria="correctness")passed = binary_pipeline.evaluate(trace_id="trace-123")print(f"Passed: {passed}")
# Majority vote across multiple judgesmajority_pipeline = GraderPipeline(strategy=MajorityVoteStrategy())majority_pipeline.add_grader(evaluator=judge, criteria="correctness")majority_pipeline.add_grader(evaluator=judge, criteria="hallucination")majority_pipeline.add_grader(evaluator=judge, criteria="helpfulness")result = majority_pipeline.evaluate(trace_id="trace-123")print(f"Majority vote: {result}")Eval Suite Lifecycle Management
from bigquery_agent_analytics.eval_suite import EvalSuite
suite = EvalSuite(client)
# Define eval suitesuite.add_test( test_id="greeting_test", input_text="Hello, how are you?", expected_tools=["greeting_handler"], min_correctness=0.8)
suite.add_test( test_id="search_test", input_text="Find documents about AI", expected_tools=["search_documents", "extract_entities"], min_correctness=0.9)
# Run suitesuite_results = suite.run()
# Check graduation criteria (all tests pass threshold)if suite.check_graduation(min_pass_rate=0.95): print("✓ Suite ready for production") suite.graduate()
# Check saturation (no improvement over N runs)if suite.check_saturation(lookback_runs=10, improvement_threshold=0.01): print("⚠ Suite saturated - consider adding new tests")
# Save suite resultssuite.save_results(output_table="eval_suite_results")Agent Context Graph (Decision-Trace Extraction)
The Agent Context Graph extracts decision traces from your agent's context: what requests it handled, what options it weighed, and what outcomes it committed, materialized as a BigQuery property graph.
Deploy Context Graph (One-Time Setup)
# 1. Create tables (nodes: DecisionRequest, DecisionOption, DecisionOutcome)export PROJECT_ID="my-project"export DATASET="agent_analytics"
cat > table_ddl.sql <<'EOF'CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `${PROJECT_ID}.${DATASET}.decision_requests` ( request_id STRING NOT NULL, request_text STRING, timestamp TIMESTAMP, session_id STRING);
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `${PROJECT_ID}.${DATASET}.decision_options` ( option_id STRING NOT NULL, request_id STRING NOT NULL, option_label STRING, option_score FLOAT64);
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `${PROJECT_ID}.${DATASET}.decision_outcomes` ( outcome_id STRING NOT NULL, request_id STRING NOT NULL, status STRING, rationale STRING);EOF
envsubst < table_ddl.sql | bq query --use_legacy_sql=false
# 2. Create property graphcat > property_graph.sql <<'EOF'CREATE OR REPLACE PROPERTY GRAPH `${PROJECT_ID}.${DATASET}.agent_decisions_graph`NODE TABLES ( decision_requests AS DecisionRequest KEY(request_id) PROPERTIES(request_text, timestamp, session_id), decision_options AS DecisionOption KEY(option_id) PROPERTIES(option_label, option_score), decision_outcomes AS DecisionOutcome KEY(outcome_id) PROPERTIES(status, rationale))EDGE TABLES ( decision_options AS evaluatesOption SOURCE KEY(request_id) REFERENCES DecisionRequest DESTINATION KEY(option_id) REFERENCES DecisionOption PROPERTIES(option_score), decision_outcomes AS resultedIn SOURCE KEY(request_id) REFERENCES DecisionRequest DESTINATION KEY(outcome_id) REFERENCES DecisionOutcome PROPERTIES(status));EOF
envsubst < property_graph.sql | bq query --use_legacy_sql=falseExtract Decision Traces (Python API)
from bigquery_agent_analytics.context_graph import ContextGraph
graph = ContextGraph( client=client, graph_name="agent_decisions_graph")
# Materialize window (extract traces from agent_events)graph.materialize_window( lookback_hours=24, extract_fn=lambda events: { "request_id": events[0].get("trace_id"), "request_text": events[0].get("input_text"), "timestamp": events[0].get("timestamp"), "options": [ {"option_id": f"opt-{i}", "option_label": opt} for i, opt in enumerate(events[0].get("options", [])) ], "outcome": { "outcome_id": f"out-{events[-1].get('trace_id')}", "status": events[-1].get("status"), "rationale": events[-1].get("rationale") } })
# Query graph with GQLdecision_traces = client.query("""SELECT * FROM GRAPH_TABLE( agent_analytics.agent_decisions_graph MATCH (req:DecisionRequest)-[eo:evaluatesOption]->(opt:DecisionOption), (req)-[ri:resultedIn]->(out:DecisionOutcome) COLUMNS ( req.request_text AS question, opt.option_label AS considered, out.status AS outcome, out.rationale AS rationale ))WHERE req.timestamp >= TIMESTAMP_SUB(CURRENT_TIMESTAMP(), INTERVAL 24 HOUR)LIMIT 100""")
for row in decision_traces: print(f"Q: {row.question} | Considered: {row.considered} | " f"Outcome: {row.outcome} | Rationale: {row.rationale}")Extract Decision Traces (CLI)
# Extract from last 24 hoursbqaa context-graph --project-id $PROJECT_ID --dataset-id agent_analytics \ --graph agent_decisions_graph --lookback-hours 24 --format json
# Output: {"ok": true, "rows_inserted": 150, "sessions_processed": 5}
# Query extracted tracesbq query --use_legacy_sql=false "SELECT * FROM GRAPH_TABLE( agent_analytics.agent_decisions_graph MATCH (req:DecisionRequest)-[eo:evaluatesOption]->(opt:DecisionOption), (req)-[ri:resultedIn]->(out:DecisionOutcome) COLUMNS (req.request_text AS question, opt.option_label AS considered, out.status AS outcome, out.rationale AS rationale)) LIMIT 10"Schedule Periodic Materialization
# Deploy Cloud Scheduler + Cloud Run for automatic extractionbqaa schedule-context-graph --project-id $PROJECT_ID \ --dataset-id agent_analytics --graph agent_decisions_graph \ --cron "0 */6 * * *" --region us-central1
# Manual triggerbqaa context-graph --project-id $PROJECT_ID --dataset-id agent_analytics \ --graph agent_decisions_graph --lookback-hours 6See Agent Context Graph Codelab [blocked] for the full 35-minute guided walkthrough.
AI/ML Integration
BigQuery AI Functions
from bigquery_agent_analytics.ai_ml_integration import AIMLIntegration
ai_ml = AIMLIntegration(client)
# Generate summaries with AI.GENERATEsummaries = ai_ml.generate_summaries( input_table="agent_analytics.agent_end_events", prompt_column="output_text", model_name="gemini-2.0-flash-exp", output_table="trace_summaries")
# Classify sentiment with AI.CLASSIFYclassifications = ai_ml.classify_sentiment( input_table="agent_analytics.agent_end_events", text_column="output_text", output_table="sentiment_results")
# Generate embeddings with AI.EMBEDembeddings = ai_ml.generate_embeddings( input_table="agent_analytics.agent_start_events", text_column="input_text", embedding_model="textembedding-gecko@003", output_table="input_embeddings")
# Anomaly detection on latencyanomalies = ai_ml.detect_anomalies( metric_table="eval_results", metric_column="latency_ms", timestamp_column="timestamp", output_table="latency_anomalies")BigFrames Evaluation
from bigquery_agent_analytics.bigframes_evaluator import BigFramesEvaluatorimport bigframes.pandas as bpd
bf_eval = BigFramesEvaluator(client)
# Load traces as BigFrames DataFramedf = bpd.read_gbq("agent_analytics.agent_events")
# Compute metricsmetrics_df = bf_eval.compute_metrics( df, metrics=["latency", "token_count", "error_rate"])
# Aggregate by sessionsession_metrics = metrics_df.groupby("session_id").agg({ "latency_ms": "mean", "token_count": "sum", "error_rate": "mean"})
# Save resultssession_metrics.to_gbq("agent_analytics.session_metrics")Categorical (Hatteras-Style) Evaluation
from bigquery_agent_analytics.categorical_evaluator import CategoricalEvaluator
cat_eval = CategoricalEvaluator(client)
# Define categoriescategories = { "greeting": ["hello", "hi", "hey"], "search": ["find", "search", "lookup"], "summarize": ["summarize", "summary", "tldr"]}
# Classify tracesclassifications = cat_eval.classify_traces( trace_ids=["trace-1", "trace-2", "trace-3"], categories=categories)
# Compute per-category metricscategory_metrics = cat_eval.compute_category_metrics( classifications=classifications, evaluator=judge)
for category, metrics in category_metrics.items(): print(f"{category}: accuracy={metrics['accuracy']:.2%}, " f"precision={metrics['precision']:.2%}")Analytics
Drift Detection
from bigquery_agent_analytics.feedback import DriftDetector
drift = DriftDetector(client)
# Compare question distributions (golden vs production)drift_results = drift.detect_drift( golden_table="agent_analytics.golden_questions", production_table="agent_analytics.agent_start_events", text_column="input_text", lookback_days=7)
if drift_results["drift_detected"]: print(f"⚠ Drift detected! KL divergence: {drift_results['kl_divergence']:.4f}") print(f"Top drifting terms: {drift_results['top_drifting_terms']}")else: print("✓ No significant drift detected")
# Save drift reportdrift.save_report(drift_results, output_table="drift_reports")Multi-Stage Insights Pipeline
from bigquery_agent_analytics.insights import InsightsPipeline
pipeline = InsightsPipeline(client)
# Stage 1: Extract featurespipeline.add_stage( name="feature_extraction", query=""" SELECT trace_id, session_id, latency_ms, token_count, tool_count FROM `agent_analytics.eval_results` WHERE DATE(timestamp) = CURRENT_DATE() """)
# Stage 2: Aggregate by sessionpipeline.add_stage( name="session_aggregation", query=""" SELECT session_id, AVG(latency_ms) AS avg_latency, SUM(token_count) AS total_tokens, COUNT(*) AS trace_count FROM {feature_extraction} GROUP BY session_id """)
# Stage 3: Identify outlierspipeline.add_stage( name="outlier_detection", query=""" SELECT * FROM {session_aggregation} WHERE avg_latency > (SELECT APPROX_QUANTILES(avg_latency, 100)[OFFSET(95)] FROM {session_aggregation}) """)
# Run pipelineresults = pipeline.run()outlier_sessions = results["outlier_detection"]
for row in outlier_sessions: print(f"Session {row.session_id}: avg_latency={row.avg_latency}ms")Long-Horizon Memory Service
from bigquery_agent_analytics.memory_service import MemoryService
memory = MemoryService(client)
# Store agent memorymemory.store( session_id="session-123", memory_key="user_preferences", memory_value={"theme": "dark", "language": "en"}, ttl_hours=720 # 30 days)
# Retrieve memoryprefs = memory.retrieve( session_id="session-123", memory_key="user_preferences")print(f"User preferences: {prefs}")
# Cross-session retrieval (find similar sessions)similar_sessions = memory.find_similar_sessions( current_session_id="session-123", similarity_threshold=0.8, max_results=5)
for session in similar_sessions: print(f"Similar session: {session['session_id']}, " f"similarity={session['similarity']:.2f}")Configuration
Environment Variables
# Requiredexport GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="/path/to/service-account-key.json"export PROJECT_ID="my-gcp-project"export DATASET_ID="agent_analytics"
# Optionalexport BIGQUERY_LOCATION="US" # Default: USexport EVAL_MODEL="gemini-2.0-flash-exp" # LLM judge modelexport LOG_LEVEL="INFO" # DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERRORClient Configuration
# Custom BigQuery clientfrom google.cloud import bigquery
bq_client = bigquery.Client( project="my-project", location="EU")
client = Client( project_id="my-project", dataset_id="agent_analytics", bq_client=bq_client # Use custom client)
# Custom job labelsclient.default_job_labels = { "team": "ml-platform", "env": "production"}Common Patterns
Continuous Evaluation Pipeline
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
# Evaluate last hour every hourdef continuous_eval_job(): end_time = datetime.utcnow() start_time = end_time - timedelta(hours=1) # System metrics system_eval = SystemEvaluator(client) sys_results = system_eval.evaluate(start_time, end_time) system_eval.save_results(sys_results, "hourly_system_metrics") # LLM judge judge = LLMAsJudge(client, model_name="gemini-2.0-flash-exp") llm_results = judge.evaluate_traces( trace_ids=[r["trace_id"] for r in sys_results] ) judge.save_results(llm_results, "hourly_llm_scores") # Alert on anomalies ai_ml = AIMLIntegration(client) anomalies = ai_ml.detect_anomalies( metric_table="hourly_system_metrics", metric_column="latency_ms", timestamp_column="timestamp" ) if len(anomalies) > 0: alert_on_call(anomalies)
# Schedule with Cloud Scheduler# (or run as cron in your environment)Golden Dataset Validation
# Compare production against golden datasetgolden_traces = client.get_traces_for_session("golden-session-id")prod_traces = client.get_traces( start_time=datetime.utcnow() - timedelta(hours=1), end_time=datetime.utcnow())
trajectory_eval = TrajectoryEvaluator(client)
for prod_trace in prod_traces[:10]: # Sample for golden_trace in golden_traces: result = trajectory_eval.evaluate( trace_ids=[prod_trace.trace_id], golden_path=extract_golden_path(golden_trace), match_strategy="in_order" ) if not result[0]["matches"]: print(f"⚠ Trace {prod_trace.trace_id} diverged from golden path")Cost Attribution by Team
# Query job labels for cost attributioncost_query = """SELECT labels.value AS team, SUM(total_bytes_billed) / POW(10, 12) AS tb_billed, SUM(total_slot_ms) / 1000 / 3600 AS slot_hoursFROM `region-us`.INFORMATION_SCHEMA.JOBS_BY_PROJECTCROSS JOIN UNNEST(labels) AS labelsWHERE labels.key = 'team' AND creation_time >= TIMESTAMP_SUB(CURRENT_TIMESTAMP(), INTERVAL 7 DAY) AND state = 'DONE'GROUP BY teamORDER BY tb_billed DESC"""
cost_by_team = client.query(cost_query)for row in cost_by_team: print(f"{row.team}: {row.tb_billed:.2f} TB billed, " f"{row.slot_hours:.2f} slot-hours")Trace Sampling for Manual Review
# Sample traces for human reviewimport random
all_traces = client.get_traces( start_time=datetime.utcnow() - timedelta(days=1), end_time=datetime.utcnow())
# Stratified sampling: by latency bucketslow_latency = [t for t in all_traces if t.duration_ms < 1000]mid_latency = [t for t in all_traces if 1000 <= t.duration_ms < 5000]high_latency = [t for t in all_traces if t.duration_ms >= 5000]
sample = ( random.sample(low_latency, min(10, len(low_latency))) + random.sample(mid_latency, min(10, len(mid_latency))) + random.sample(high_latency, min(
