Starting February 18, 2026, trace sinks are deprecated. For more information, see

## Deprecate Deprecated Starting February 18, 2026,[trace sinks](https://cloud.google.com/trace/docs/trace-export-overview) are deprecated. For more information, see[Export trace spans with sinks deprecation](https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/docs/deprecations/export-spans-with-sinks). You can use the Log Analytics page, which provides a SQL query interface, to query both your trace and log data. To learn more, see the following documents: * To migrate to using Log Analytics page from a sink-based export of trace data to BigQuery, see[Migrate to Log Analytics](https://cloud.google.com/trace/docs/analytics-migrate). * To query your trace data by using the Log Analytics page, see[Query and analyze traces](https://cloud.google.com/trace/docs/analytics). * To query your trace data by using BigQuery services, see[Query a linked BigQuery dataset](https://cloud.google.com/trace/docs/analytics-query-linked-dataset).