I have a few implementation questions for running of Simulation and monitoring tools found in Pega for my company. The tools we are considering for simulation testing and monitoring are below:

Value Finder, action performance, scenario planner, impact analyzer, distribution test, audience simulation.

The questions are below:

1. Are any of these tools good to be tested or executed on Production environment?

2. What is the sample size of the audience for these tests? The Pega documentation says 100K - 500K but does any smaller size make sense?

3. What are the ways to get a sample of the production data into the BOE environment beside installing the migration pipeline?

4. Which of these tools (or are they all) show the current production behavior ? Which tools show both current and future performance?

Thank you!