Verbosity in Google ADK

[AatriNag]

Hello Everyone, I have implemented one of the google sample ADK agents, which uses the google search tool. Now, I want to see the verbosity, to check what exactly the google_search tool is searching and how is it parsing through the links on the google. Can anyone, kindly help me to enable logging/checking verbosity.

[dexhunter]

For google_search, inspect the response's grounding metadata. Gemini runs the search, so there is no local Python trace of its page fetching and parsing.

On the normal Gemini generate_content path:

async for event in runner.run_async(
    user_id=user_id,
    session_id=session_id,
    new_message=message,
):
    grounding = event.grounding_metadata
    if grounding is not None:
        print("Queries:", grounding.web_search_queries)
        for chunk in grounding.grounding_chunks or []:
            if chunk.web is not None:
                print(chunk.web.title, chunk.web.uri)

This prints the queries and source references supplied by the API. Grounding supports also link response text to sources. The metadata can be absent when the model doesn't use Search.

ADK's GoogleSearchTool enables that built-in service. Debug logs can show requests and responses; tracing the crawling and parsing would require a retrieval tool whose execution you control.