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What role did Terraform play in automating the creation of Datadog monitors for the client's observability solution?
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Terraform was used to programmatically provision Datadog monitors as part of an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) pipeline. John wrote reusable Terraform modules for different types of monitors, such as metric alerts and anomaly detection. These modules accepted parameters like thresholds and notification channels, enabling dynamic generation of monitors based on the shared configuration file. This approach ensured scalability and reusability across projects. Terraform enabled John to automate the creation of Datadog monitors by providing reusable modules that dynamically generated monitors based on standardized configurations.