bigquery-troubleshooting
Google's skill for diagnosing BigQuery jobs that fail, run slowly or cost more than expected.
What the skill teaches
Google's skill for diagnosing BigQuery jobs that fail, run slowly or cost more than expected. It gives a step-by-step workflow for reading symptoms, isolating the bottleneck in a query plan or execution graph, and finding the root cause, plus a four-step funnel for cost spikes in on-demand spend, capacity slot autoscaling and storage growth. Reference files cover resource contention, configuration changes and plan stages. It expects the Cloud SDK, the BigQuery and Cloud Monitoring APIs and a signed-in account, and it hands SQL tuning and capacity planning to the optimisation skill. It is published in Google's skills repository.
Capabilities
- Diagnose slow or failing BigQuery jobs
- Read query plan stages to find bottlenecks
- Trace cost spikes in compute and storage
- Recommend remediation steps
Install
- Run this to add it to Any client:
npx skills add google/skills
What's inside
- references/attribution.md
- references/cost_compute_capacity.md
- references/cost_compute_ondemand.md
- references/cost_storage.md
- references/performance_config_changed.md
- references/performance_resource_contention.md
- references/query_plan_execution_graph.md
Details
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Skill | |
| Tools | BigQuery, Debugging | |
| Publisher | source | |
| Official status | Officialpublished in Google's own GitHub organisation; Google develops BigQuery | source |
| Needs an API key or sign-in | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Includes scripts | No | source |
| Platforms | Not stated in its documentation | |
| AI clients | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | source |
| Pricing | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Activity | Last commit Nov 11, 202623,842 GitHub starsDownload data not available (not on npm or PyPI) | source |
| Links | Repository |
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Sources
- Skill file (SKILL.md)github.com/google/skillsNov 10, 2026
- README (README.md)github.com/google/skills · Backs: Official statusNov 12, 2026
- Licence file (LICENSE)github.com/google/skills · Backs: LicenceNov 12, 2026
- GitHub repositorygithub.com/google/skills · Backs: Publisher, Activity, LicenceNov 11, 2026
- Folder in the repository (bigquery-troubleshooting)github.com/google/skills · Backs: Includes scriptsNov 10, 2026