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What challenges did John Mosquera address in the client's Datadog monitoring setup, and how did he resolve them?
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The client's Datadog monitoring setup faced two main challenges: inconsistency in alert thresholds across teams and excessive manual effort required to create and maintain monitors as their infrastructure scaled. John Mosquera addressed these issues by developing an automated solution using Terraform and Python scripts. He conducted workshops with stakeholders to standardize metrics and alert thresholds, created a shared configuration file in Git, and wrote Terraform modules to provision Datadog monitors programmatically. Python scripts dynamically generated Terraform variables from the configuration file, enabling efficient updates without modifying the underlying code. John Mosquera resolved inconsistencies and manual inefficiencies in the client's Datadog monitoring setup by automating monitor creation using Terraform and Python scripts. This approach standardized metrics, reduced manual effort, and ensured scalability.