Introduction
You are your company’s senior cloud administrator. You are responsible for critical SAP workloads running on Azure Virtual Machines. Your company wants to quickly access data from their Azure SAP workloads to investigate any issues. You have prepared to deploy Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions (currently in preview from the Azure Marketplace), so you can collect telemetry data from Azure infrastructure and databases and consolidate it at one central location.
In this module, you'll learn about Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions for SAP workloads running in Azure, and about Azure Backup for SAP HANA running on Azure Virtual Machines.
Note
This module describes only Azure-specific topics. For general SAP HANA backup related items, check the SAP HANA documentation.
Learning objectives
In this module, you'll:
Select the appropriate monitoring solution based on use case.
Evaluate Azure Monitor logs and Azure Monitor for VMs.
Configure a Log Analytics workspace.
Navigate the Log Analytics interface in Azure Monitor.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of Azure virtual machine creation, administration, and maintenance
Basic knowledge of operational concepts, such as monitoring, logging, and alerts
Basic familiarity with querying datasets to filter and extract information