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How did John Mosquera validate the automated Datadog monitor creation process before deploying it to production?
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John set up a sandbox environment to test the end-to-end workflow. This involved committing changes to the configuration file, triggering Terraform runs via CI/CD pipelines, and verifying that monitors appeared correctly in Datadog. This rigorous testing ensured the solution's robustness before deployment to production. John Mosquera validated the automation process by testing it in a sandbox environment, ensuring monitors were correctly created and deployed before moving the solution to production.