1. Go to the GCP Console and select the project that has the SQL instance that needs to be configured.
2. Navigate to the SQL Instances page by clicking on the “SQL” option in the left-hand menu.
3. Select the SQL instance that needs to be configured.
4. Click on the “Edit” button at the top of the page.
5. Scroll down to the “Alerting and Monitoring” section.
6. In the “Alerting and Monitoring” section, enable the “Configuration changes” option.
7. Click on the “Save” button at the bottom of the page to save the changes.

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1. Open the Cloud Shell in the GCP console.
2. Run the following command to enable SQL Configuration Change Log Alerts for all Cloud SQL instances in the current project:
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   gcloud sql instances patch [INSTANCE_NAME] --enable-bin-log --backup-start-time [HH:MM]
   

   Replace <INSTANCE_NAME> with the name of the Cloud SQL instance for which you want to enable the alerts. Replace <HH:MM> with the time at which you want to start the daily backup, in 24-hour format. For example, if you want to start the backup at 2:00 AM, you can use --backup-start-time 02:00.
3. Run the following command to verify that the SQL Configuration Change Log Alerts have been enabled for the instance:
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   gcloud sql instances describe [INSTANCE_NAME] | grep 'binaryLogEnabled\|backupStartTime'
   

   This command will display the values of the binaryLogEnabled and backupStartTime fields for the instance. If binaryLogEnabled is set to true and backupStartTime is set to the time you specified in step 2, then the SQL Configuration Change Log Alerts have been successfully enabled for the instance.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for all Cloud SQL instances in the project to ensure that the alerts are enabled for all instances.

1. Import the required libraries:

from googleapiclient import discovery
from oauth2client.client import GoogleCredentials

2. Set up the credentials for the GCP project:

credentials = GoogleCredentials.get_application_default()
service = discovery.build('sqladmin', 'v1beta4', credentials=credentials)

3. Get the list of SQL instances:

instances = service.instances().list(project='<project-id>').execute()

4. Loop through each instance and check if the “enableDatabaseFlags” property is set to True:

for instance in instances['items']:
    if instance['settings']['databaseFlags']['enableDatabaseFlags']:
        print('SQL Configuration Change Log Alerts are already enabled for instance: ' + instance['name'])
    else:
        print('Enabling SQL Configuration Change Log Alerts for instance: ' + instance['name'])
        instance['settings']['databaseFlags']['enableDatabaseFlags'] = True
        service.instances().update(project='<project-id>', instance=instance['name'], body=instance).execute()

5. Run the Python script, and it will enable SQL Configuration Change Log Alerts for all the SQL instances in the specified GCP project.