When Gemini 2.5 Pro Vanished from the Picker: Why It Isn't Deprecated, and How to Keep Your History
If Gemini 2.5 Pro disappears from your AI Studio model list, here is how to tell a real shutdown from a visibility change using the official deprecations page, and how to keep your past conversations independent of any one model.
Turning Logging Off in AI Studio Also Turns Off Interactions API Conversation History
When no Gemini API logs show up in AI Studio, the usual culprit is the store default, which is inverted between the two APIs. Here is the side effect that quietly stops conversation history, and how to set store per request so it never surprises you.
Don't Let the AI Studio Developer Log Be Your Source of Truth: A Two-Layer Way to Observe the Interactions API
The Interactions API developer log in AI Studio is a great triage lens, but it is not a system of record. Here is a two-layer observability design with self-hosted structured logging, reconciliation code, measured sink sizing across 100,000 records, and per-feature cost attribution from an indie operator’s point of view.