Sunday, July 19, 2020

Setting up monitoring for SAP HANA on Azure - but how?

Tobias Niekamp
The road to Hana can be a rocky one... Although the above picture might suggest differently, I’m not talking about the picturesque town of Hāna in Maui, Hawaiʻi, but SAP's in-memory database and de-facto technology stack. Collecting telemetry from SAP HANA is one of the primary use cases of our new product Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions, and yet, getting everything configured properly is not exactly straightforward. In this post, I want to go beyond the official documentation and ...

Sunday, July 12, 2020

Yet another SAP monitoring tool?

Tobias Niekamp
Azure-native SAP monitoring is on the horizon!  After 18 months of development, Microsoft is ready to announce Public Preview of our new Azure-native monitoring product for SAP workloads Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions, with lots of love for HANA customers. But why did Microsoft even bother to throw yet another monitoring tool on the market, given the abundance of SAP's own and third-party solutions? In this first post, I want to share my perspective on why building Azure-native SAP ...