App store server notification missing properties in sandbox

I'm trying to implement in app purchases and subscription management on the server depends on properties like a unique subscription_id and any changes to auto_renew_status with each notification. the docs say this information should be present in a notification body but when i get sandboxed response they are missing any potentially identifying top level properties (such as an auto_renew_adam_id if i understand that property correctly.)

do i use the auto_renew_adam_id to identify a subscription? if so how do i go about testing it in the sandbox, or at all?

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appstoreservernotifications/responsebody

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Original_transaction_id is the unique identifier for each subscribers active subscription. So if they have a single subscription with 10 transactions (1 purchase and 9 renewals) you will see all 10 transactions referencing the same original_transaction_id. If you have multiple subscription services (groups) then a customer could have multiple original_transaction_id values.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appstorereceipts/original_transaction_id