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

## Breaking Breaking Starting August 31, 2026, you can no longer create or edit[trace sinks](https://cloud.google.com/trace/docs/trace-export-overview). Trace sinks were deprecated on February 18, 2026\. For more information, see[Export trace spans with sinks deprecation](https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/docs/deprecations/export-spans-with-sinks). For information about how to analyze your trace data using SQL, see the following documents: * [Query and analyze traces using Observability Analytics](https://cloud.google.com/trace/docs/analytics) * [Query a linked BigQuery dataset](https://cloud.google.com/trace/docs/analytics-query-linked-dataset)