When customers move their mission critical SAP applications to Azure, a decision on which monitoring tool to use is carefully made. Various tools are evaluated, older pain points are reconsidered, and new cloud-specific monitoring needs are identified. Microsoft built Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions (AMS), currently in public preview, to address some of these needs. AMS is an Azure native monitoring solution that provides end-to-end SAP technical monitoring at one place in Azure portal.
AMS can be used by customers running their SAP workloads on Azure virtual machines as well as Azure large instances to monitor their SAP on Azure landscapes. Currently, telemetry collections for the following are supported: SAP HANA, Microsoft SQL Server and High-availability (pacemaker) clusters. And the following regions are supported: East US, East US 2, West US 2, West Europe.
Today I am excited to share the following capabilities in public preview:
- SAP NetWeaver (ABAP & JAVA)
- Operating system (SUSE & RHEL)
- Additional metrics for High-availability (pacemaker) cluster
- North Europe region
SAP NetWeaver data is collected from functions in SAP Start service which are provided on SAPControl SOAP Web Service. Following metrics are supported with this release: SAP instance availability, process availability, work process utilization, enqueue lock statistics, queue statics and trends. More to follow. Data for high-availability (pacemaker) clusters is collected from ha cluster exporter, which runs on every node in a cluster. Previously, statuses for nodes and resources were available, now customers can see information about location constraints, failure counts and trends on node and resource status. Operating systems (SUSE and RHEL) data is collected through node exporter which is required to run on each host. Metrics like: CPU usage by process, Persistent memory, Swap memory, Memory usage, Disk utilization, Network information and more are available. OS monitoring in AMS is specifically useful for customers running workloads on Azure large instances (BareMetal).
With this release, AMS provides end-to-end technical monitoring for all layers in SAP’s 3-tier architecture at one place. Customers can use AMS to visualize, monitor and troubleshoot all layers and visually corelate data across them. Further, customers can create Azure dashboards, with few clicks, to visualize SAP telemetry and non-SAP telemetry (other Azure services) in single-pane-of-glass. This can be done by combining telemetry from AMS and Azure monitor.
Since end-to-end technical monitoring is available within Azure portal, both BASIS administrators and infrastructure teams in customer’s organization can use AMS to monitor SAP on Azure. Moreover, Hosters/service integrations/partners can use AMS to monitor SAP systems for their customers and view cross-tenant SAP telemetry in Azure portal through integration between AMS and Azure Light house.
To get started, log into Azure portal and search ‘Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions’ in Azure Marketplace. Please see the links below for further information.
Share your thoughts with AMS product group: AMS asks & feedback form
Learn more:
- Step by step AMS onboarding
- Technical deep dive on SAP NetWeaver in AMS blog
- Technical deep dive on HA cluster in AMS blog
- SAP NetWeaver in AMS quick start video
- SAP NetWeaver in AMS podcast
- AMS announcement
- AMS public documentation
- AMS quick start video
- AMS Azure Friday video
- AMS podcast
- AMS integration with Azure Lighthouse
- AMS & SUSE collaboration
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