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How did John Mosquera address the challenges of inconsistent alert thresholds and manual effort in Datadog monitoring for his client?
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John Mosquera identified two major issues in the client's Datadog monitoring setup: inconsistent alert thresholds across teams and excessive manual effort for creating and maintaining monitors. To address these challenges, he developed an automated solution using Terraform and Python scripts. This approach involved creating a centralized framework for defining and provisioning Datadog monitors as part of the infrastructure-as-code pipeline. By conducting workshops with stakeholders to define standardized metrics and alert thresholds, and implementing a shared configuration file in Git, John ensured consistency and transparency. The use of Terraform modules for programmatic monitor provisioning, combined with Python scripts for dynamic variable generation, allowed for a flexible and scalable solution. John Mosquera implemented an automated solution using Terraform and Python scripts to create a centralized, consistent, and efficient framework for Datadog monitor provisioning, addressing the challenges of inconsistent thresholds and manual effort in the client's monitoring setup.