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What role did stakeholder workshops play in the development of the Datadog monitoring solution?
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Stakeholder workshops played a crucial role in the development of the Datadog monitoring solution. These workshops brought together representatives from various teams including DevOps, SRE, and application owners to collaboratively define standardized metrics and alert thresholds. This process ensured that the monitoring solution addressed the needs and concerns of all parties involved. The workshops facilitated the creation of a shared understanding of what constituted critical thresholds for different services and applications, leading to more effective and relevant monitoring. By involving stakeholders early in the process, the engineer was able to gain buy-in for the automated solution and ensure that it aligned with the organization's overall monitoring strategy. The outcomes of these workshops formed the basis of the shared configuration file, which became the foundation of the entire automated monitoring setup. Stakeholder workshops were instrumental in the solution development, enabling collaborative definition of standardized metrics and thresholds, ensuring the solution met diverse team needs, and creating a shared understanding that formed the basis of the centralized monitoring configuration.