Monitoring SAP HANA

Local monitoring

In local monitoring, the sensor collects both host metrics and HANA database metrics, offering a comprehensive full-stack view of the data.

Depending on the mode in which SAP HANA is run (multiple containers or single container), you can set different username and password combinations in the agent configuration yaml file <instana-agent-dir>/etc/instana/configuration.yaml to connect to the database.

The configuration parameters for local monitoring are shown in the following example:

# SAP HANA
com.instana.plugin.saphana:
 local:
   singleContainer:
     user: ''
     password: ''
   multiContainer:
     HXE:
       user: ''
       password: ''
     my-test-db:
       user: ''
       password: ''

The default user is SYSTEM.

Remote monitoring

In remote monitoring, the Instana SAP HANA sensor monitors SAP HANA databases that are deployed on different hosts than the one hosting the Instana agent. The SAP HANA sensor can monitor more than one database.

The configuration parameters for remote monitoring are shown in the following example:

# SAP HANA
com.instana.plugin.saphana:
  remote: # multiple remote configurations are supported
    - host: 'remote.host-1.com'
      port: '' #sql port
      databaseName: ''
      user: ''
      password: ''
    - host: 'remote.host-2.com'
      port: '' #sql port
      databaseName: ''
      user: ''
      password: ''

For the single container mode, the database name is blank. For the multi-container mode, you must enter a value for the database name.

Monitoring with the static agent

Instana supports only Java 8 for Power PC. For other platforms, Instana supports only Java 8 if the agent version is 282 or later.

When you use the static agent, you need to provide the com.sap.cloud.db.jdbc:ngdbc driver manually.

To monitor the SAP HANA database with the static agent, complete the following steps:

1. Download the ngdbc-2.4.64.jar driver from the Maven Central Repository.

2. Add the ngdbc-2.4.64.jar driver to the <agent-installation-dir>/system/com/sap/cloud/db/jdbc/ngdbc/2.4.64 directory.

3. Go to the <agent-installation-dir>/bin directory, and open the setenv file.

4. Add the line export JAVA_HOME=<path-to-java-home> after UNSET JAVA_HOME as shown in the following example:

   unset JAVA_HOME
   export JAVA_HOME=<path-to-java-home>
   

5. Save the changes and close the file.

6. Restart the agent.

Monitoring SAP HANA with the dynamic agent

Instana supports only Java 8 for Power PC. For other platforms, Instana supports only Java 8 if the agent version is 282 or later.

To monitor SAP HANA with the dynamic agent, complete the following steps:

1. Download Java 8.

2. Go to the <agent-installation-dir>/bin directory, and open the setenv file.

3. Add the line export JAVA_HOME=<path-to-java-home> after UNSET JAVA_HOME as shown in the following example:

   unset JAVA_HOME
   export JAVA_HOME=<path-to-java-home>
   

4. Save the changes and close the file.

5. Restart the Instana agent to apply the changes.

For more information about agent installation prerequisites and supported JDKs, see Installing host agents.

Azul Zulu 1.8 runtime is not available for the PowerPC Little Endian architecture.

Tracked configuration

• System ID
• Database Name
• Instance Number
• Version
• Port
• Usage
• Maximum Number of Sessions
• Host Status

Metrics

The following table outlines the frequency of metric collection by the SAP HANA sensor:

To see SQL Plan Cache Statistics metrics, set the plan_cache_statistics_enabled field to true in the agent configuration file.

The SAP HANA sensor generates built-in events for various scenarios. For more information, see Built-in Events Reference.