You need instant notifications to your monitoring tool when new rows are appended to a specific BigQuery table by insert jobs, without alerts for other tables. How do you implement this with Stackdriver (Cloud Logging)?

The correct approach is to use the Stackdriver API to create a project-level log sink with an advanced log filter that exports to Pub/Sub. This allows you to specifically filter for BigQuery insert jobs affecting the target table, ensuring only relevant events are captured. Your monitoring tool can then subscribe to this Pub/Sub topic for instant notifications. Calling the Stackdriver API to list all logs and apply an advanced filter is inefficient and doesn't provide instant notifications. Enabling a log sink that exports logs to BigQuery would store the logs in BigQuery, but wouldn't provide real-time alerts to your monitoring tool. Creating a log sink exporting to Cloud Pub/Sub in the console is a valid step, but the API offers more programmatic control and automation for setting up the specific advanced filter needed for this scenario.