Version 2: Workload Manager evaluation using Google Cloud's Agent for SAP

If you're using version 2 of Google Cloud's Agent for SAP, then we recommend that you switch to the latest version of the agent as soon as possible. For information about how to update Google Cloud's Agent for SAP, see Update Google Cloud's Agent for SAP .

This planning guide focuses solely on the Workload Manager evaluation metrics collection feature of Google Cloud's Agent for SAP. For information about the agent and all its features, see Google Cloud's Agent for SAP planning guide .

On Linux, Google Cloud's Agent for SAP can help you in evaluating your SAP workloads that run on Google Cloud. This is delivered through the collection of Workload Manager evaluation metrics , which you can enable after installing the agent on your Compute Engine VM instances or Bare Metal Solution servers.

Once you enable the collection of the Workload Manager evaluation metrics, you can enable Workload Manager services for your SAP workloads. The information collected in the Workload Manager evaluation metrics help you check the configuration and settings of your SAP applications, databases, and high-availability configurations. For information about the best practices that Workload Manager supports for evaluating SAP workloads, see Workload Manager best practices for SAP .

For information about how to configure Google Cloud's Agent for SAP to collect the Workload Manager evaluation metrics, see Configure Workload Manager evaluation metrics collection .

Cloud Monitoring pricing

The Workload Manager evaluation metrics that Google Cloud's Agent for SAP collects and sends to Monitoring are classified by Monitoring as chargeable metrics and priced by ingested volume.

The frequency at which the agent queries your SAP systems to collect the Workload Manager evaluation metrics affects the volume of metrics that get sent to Monitoring. Workload Manager evaluation metrics are slow-changing metrics that are collected every 5 minutes by default.

For more information about Monitoring pricing, see Google Cloud Observability pricing .

Sample cost estimate

To see a sample cost estimate for the collection of the Workload Manager evaluation metrics using Google Cloud's Agent for SAP, see Pricing example for metrics charged by bytes ingested .

Workload Manager evaluation metrics

The following table describes the Workload Manager evaluation metrics collected by Google Cloud's Agent for SAP. The metric strings in this table must be prefixed with workload.googleapis.com/ . This prefix has been omitted from the entries in the following table.

Metric

Description

sap/validation/system

Numeric metric that is always 1 .

sap/validation/corosync

Numeric metric for corosync configuration found on the instance:

0 : No corosync configuration found
1 : Corosync configuration found

sap/validation/pacemaker

Numeric metric for pacemaker configuration found on the instance:

0 : No pacemaker found
1 : Pacemaker configuration found

sap/validation/hana

Numeric metric for SAP HANA found on the instance:

0 : No SAP HANA found
1 : SAP HANA found

sap/validation/hanasecurity

Numeric metric that indicates the collection of the SAP HANA database metrics from your instances:

0 : No SAP HANA database metrics are collected
1 : SAP HANA database metrics are collected

To enable the collection of workload.googleapis.com/sap/validation/hanasecurity metric, you must allow access to the SAP HANA database, for which you need to configure additional parameters in the workload_validation_db_metrics_config section. For more information, see: Configure Workload Manager evaluation metrics collection .

sap/validation/netweaver

Numeric metric for SAP NetWeaver found on the instance:

0 : No SAP NetWeaver found
1 : SAP NetWeaver found