Simplify 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:

• Running S/4HANA, ECC, PI/PO, BO, BW?
  • PowerConnect is what you need for operational monitoring.
• Using SAP SaaS like Ariba, SalesCloud, SuccessFactors? Relying on SAP CPI or CIS?
  • PowerConnect delivers observability of those cloud apps too.
• Modernizing your landscape with SAP RISE, adopting BTP?
  • PowerConnect is what you need to manage availability and performance during transition.

This extension enables you to:

• Monitor your SAP landscape using a SAP-specific entity model and comprehensive unified analysis views
• Receive alerts on performance and availability issues detected in your SAP landscape
• Take proactive actions based on anomalies detected in SAP infrastructure before they affect SAP users

• Operational monitoring of your SAP landscape, integrated with related insights into the infrastructure and apps that Dynatrace monitors.
  • Performance and user experience observability, with root cause analysis, anomaly detection and correlation to infrastructure
  • Cloud migration and upgrades, from establishing baselines to comparative monitoring and impact analysis
  • Security insights, including user behavior analytics, access monitoring, threat correlation
  • Compliance analytics, including automated audit reporting
• SAP business services observability, including process monitoring and data validation
• Tailored view at your SAP landscape, with Dynatrace dashboards and AI-powered alerting applied to the SAP monitoring data

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:

• Log to metric conversion rules that expose hundreds of PowerConnect metrics in Dynatrace
• Topology and relationship definitions for logical entities that reflect SAP operations
• A sample dashboard offering the SAP monitoring overview and status
• Sample alert definitions
• Unified analysis views for monitored SAP entities, leveraging the topology model for interactive analysis

Summary of the SAP entities monitored: The SAP PowerConnect extension collects metrics for:

• SAP ABAP
  • System and user Activity
  • BASIS Health and System Checks
  • Job Overview and Details
  • Security overview
  • Interfaces and Transports
  • Database Metric
• SAP Java
  • System resources overview
  • Response times
• SAP Cloud systems, SaaS: for details, see PowerConnect Cloud Inputs

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

Dynatrace Managed limitations with PowerConnect

This extension works with both Dynatrace Managed and SaaS tenants. However, some metrics are handled differently on Managed tenants and dashboarding system works entirely differently.

Metrics availability limitations Managed tenants (which have no Grail underpinnings) can't deliver several metrics from PowerConnect. Following metrics are not available on Dynatrace Managed:

• ABAP System: Workprocess Utilization
• ABAP System: Debug Execution
• ABAP SQL Server Database (look at ID8): Transactions per Second
• ABAP SQL Server Database (look at ID8): User Connections
• ABAP System Fiori: Response Time for Fiori Front End
• ABAP System Fiori: Max Respone Time
• ABAP System Fiori: Response time by user (median)
• ABAP HANA Database: Query Executions by Schema name
• ABAP HANA Database: Active Statements

Dashboards availability limitations Dynatrace Managed provides a dozen of Unified Analysis screens out of the box, but you need to define dashboards on your own.

Dynatrace SaaS opens access to 200+ ready-made PowerConnect dashboards. Upgrade to Dynatrace Managed to leverage full potential of PowerConnect on Dynatrace.

Q: What Dynatrace subscription consumption should I expect?

A: Subscription consumption level of this extension heavily depends on the monitored SAP systems size and activity. You will store monitored SAP system telemetry data as logs in Dynatrace, for the time period you define, typically between 90 and 360+ days.

Logs will be translated to essential metrics, for easy reporting purposes, but more advanced reporting may still require DQL queries.

Past experience tells us that you can expect:

Between 5 GB and 500 GB logs ingested by PowerConnect, per day

Check your rating card for costs that such log ingestion will incur on your tenant. See documentation for examples of the consumption calculation approaches and online reporting.