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AI-generated Key Takeaways

This document describes categories of artifacts, detailing their types and behavior in search queries.
Artifact categories include RESOURCE, ATTRIBUTE, SEGMENT, and METRIC, each with a specific function.
ATTRIBUTE fields may segment queries depending on the attributed resource, while SEGMENT fields always segment queries.
METRIC fields are metrics that never segment search queries.

The category of the artifact.

Enums
`UNSPECIFIED`	Unspecified
`UNKNOWN`	Unknown
`RESOURCE`	The described artifact is a resource.
`ATTRIBUTE`	The described artifact is a field and is an attribute of a resource. Including a resource attribute field in a query may segment the query if the resource to which it is attributed segments the resource found in the FROM clause.
`SEGMENT`	The described artifact is a field and always segments search queries.
`METRIC`	The described artifact is a field and is a metric. It never segments search queries.

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Last updated 2025-08-07 UTC.