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:
|
sap/validation/pacemaker |
Numeric metric for pacemaker configuration found on the instance:
|
sap/validation/hana |
Numeric metric for SAP HANA found on the instance:
|
sap/validation/hanasecurity |
Numeric metric that indicates the collection of the
SAP HANA database metrics from your instances:
To enable the collection of
|
sap/validation/netweaver |
Numeric metric for SAP NetWeaver found on the instance:
|