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How to Monitor SAP System Connection Health and Create Alert Mechanism?

As a Middleware Administrator, you may need to monitor the status of SAP due to a potential exception that you cannot predict. In order to do this, you may need to connect to the SAP system somehow. In this blog post, we’re going to show you how to monitor SAP through to Oracle WebLogic and Java aspects. You are able to connect to the SAP system using the WebLogic SAP Resource Adapter.

SRE Signals: 3 Types of Metrics for Site Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering, or SRE, is a widely-used set of interdisciplinary practices that help increase the efficiency of software development. But, aside from that, its purpose is to create scalable, connected, reliable, communicated systems that keep providing better, more reliable results. SRE leads to more connected, efficient organizations that can build resilient, iterable, and scalable software. To do this, SRE engineers leverage their coding expertise.

"Hey Avantra, refresh my QA systems"

I remember just about three years ago sitting in a companywide meeting in a conference room at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Lisbon, Portugal (Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisboa). Our CTO, Bernd Engist, was giving us a presentation about some new features we had recently developed on automating the start/stop process of an SAP system.

How to Monitor SAP Hana with OpenTelemetry

SAP Hana monitoring support is now available in the open source OpenTelemetry collector. You can check out the OpenTelemetry repo here! You can utilize this receiver in conjunction with any OTel collector: including the OpenTelemetry Collector and observIQ’s distribution of the collector. Below are quick instructions for setting up observIQ’s OpenTelemetry distribution, and shipping SAP Hana telemetry to a popular backend: Google Cloud Ops.

The future of cloud automation for SAP with AWS and Avantra

In the tech world, automation has become a buzzword, especially when it comes to SAP. But in the world of SAP on cloud infrastructure like AWS, it can be fully embraced by organizations to manage their SAP systems. Automation can help you scale out your SAP environment, providing significant savings to not only your cloud budget but also your team’s time and effort to manage large SAP environments.

The future of cloud automation for SAP with Microsoft Azure and Avantra

In the tech world, automation has become a buzzword, especially when it comes to SAP. But in the world of SAP on cloud infrastructure like Azure, it can be fully embraced by organizations to manage their SAP systems. Automation can help you scale out your SAP environment, providing significant savings to not only your cloud budget but also your team’s time and effort to manage large SAP environments.

Release update | What's new in Avantra 21.11.6

We’ve just released Avantra 21.11.6 and as Product Manager for Avantra, I get the opportunity to showcase some of the awesome new features we’ve managed to fit in this release. For Avantra 21.11.6, we’re continuing to focus on our Automation engine as well as squashing a few bugs and a couple of non-automation related features too.