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What role did Terraform play in automating the creation of Datadog monitors for the client?
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Terraform was used to provision Datadog monitors programmatically. John wrote Terraform modules corresponding to specific monitor types (e.g., metric alerts, anomaly detection) that accepted parameters like metric names, thresholds, and notification channels. These modules allowed for dynamic and scalable monitor creation, reducing manual effort and ensuring consistency across the client's observability solutions. Terraform enabled John Mosquera to automate the creation of Datadog monitors by providing programmatic modules that dynamically generated monitors based on predefined parameters, ensuring scalability and consistency.