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Monitor SAP systems performance with SoftwareOne PowerConnect for Dynatrace.
ExtensionSimplify monitoring of your SAP infrastructure. Focus on essential insights while retaining the context of the business supported by SAP. Leverage a topological model that reflects the SAP system composition to understand dependencies between SAP component operations and the performance of business transactions that run on SAP. Automatically monitor dozens of SAP performance metrics.
This extension is intended for users, who:
Use Dynatrace to monitor their infrastructure, apps and users and want to extend Dynatrace insights onto SAP:
This extension enables you to:
The SAP PowerConnect extension runs straight on a Dynatrace cluster. This extension relies on data fed into Dynatrace by the PowerConnect agent deployed on your SAP systems.
To start, enable PowerConnect on all your SAP systems. Follow instructions available in PowerConnect documentation.
Activate this extension
Once PowerConnect is set up and feeding Dynatrace, dashboards and analysis screens provided by this extension will be populated with data on your SAP systems. Note: this extension delivers dashboards, analysis screens and data processing rules. PowerConnect agent on your SAP system feeds the data into Dynatrace.
Read more about Extensions 2.0 operations in Dynatrace Documentation.
The extension package contains:
Summary of the SAP entities monitored: The SAP PowerConnect extension collects metrics for:
Consult PowerConnect documentation for detailed list of metric extractors applied by PowerConnect on SAP systems.
More information For complete details about the value of monitoring SAP with PowerConnect for Dynatrace, see this blog post and PowerConnect pages.
SoftwareOne PowerConnect must be installed on your SAP systems. See PowerConnect Compatibility Matrix for details of the SAP systems supported
A: DDU consumption of this extension heavily depends on the monitored SAP systems size and activity level. You will store these logs in Dynatrace, for the time period you define, typically between 90 and 360+ days. Logs will be translated to metrics, which will increase DDU consumption slightly. Past experience tells us that you can expect:
Which translates to
ca. 0.25 M to 25M DDU consumption per year.
PowerConnect for Dynatrace extension GA version: sample dashboard and a set of Unified Analysis screens to get you started.