SAP HANA 🔗

Description 🔗

The Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector provides this integration as the hana monitor type for the Smart Agent Receiver.

Use this integration to get metrics from an SAP Hana database.

This monitor is available on Kubernetes, Linux, and Windows.

Benefits 🔗

After you configure the integration, you can access these features:

View metrics. You can create your own custom dashboards, and most monitors provide built-in dashboards as well. For information about dashboards, see View dashboards in Observability Cloud.
View a data-driven visualization of the physical servers, virtual machines, AWS instances, and other resources in your environment that are visible to Infrastructure Monitoring. For information about navigators, see Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring navigators.
Access the Metric Finder and search for metrics sent by the monitor. For information, see Use the Metric Finder.

Installation 🔗

Follow these steps to deploy this integration:

Deploy the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector to your host or container platform:
Configure the monitor, as described in the Configuration section.
Restart the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector.

Configuration 🔗

To use this integration of a Smart Agent monitor with the Collector:

Include the Smart Agent receiver in your configuration file.
Add the monitor type to the Collector configuration, both in the receiver and pipelines sections.

Read more on how to Use Smart Agent monitors with the Collector.
See how to set up the Smart Agent receiver.
Learn about config options in Collector default configuration.

receivers:
  smartagent/hana: 
    type: hana
    ... # Additional config

The following example shows additional configuration options:

receivers:
  smartagent/hana: 
    type: hana
    host: myhost.hana.us.hanacloud.ondemand.com
    port: 443
    username: SOMEUSER
    password: s3cr3t

To complete the integration, include the Smart Agent receiver using this monitor in a metrics pipeline. To do this, add the receiver to the service > pipelines > metrics > receivers section of your configuration file. For example:

service:
  pipelines:
    metrics:
      receivers: [smartagent/hana]

Configuration settings 🔗

The following table shows the configuration options for this monitor:

Option	Required	Type	Description
`tlsServerName`	no	`string`	`ServerName` to verify the host name. This option defaults to `Host` if not specified.
`insecureSkipVerify`	no	`bool`	Controls whether a client verifies the server’s certificate chain and host name. The default value is `false`.
`rootCAFiles`	no	`list of strings`	Path to root certificate(s) (optional)

Metrics 🔗

These are the metrics and dimensions available for this integration:

Notes 🔗

Learn more about the available metric types in Observability Cloud.
Default metrics are those metrics included in host-based subscriptions in Observability Cloud, such as host, container, or bundled metrics. Custom metrics are not provided by default and might be subject to charges. See more about metric categories.
To add additional metrics, see how to configure extraMetrics using the Collector.

Get help 🔗

If you are not able to see your data in Splunk Observability Cloud, try these tips:

Submit a case in the Splunk Support Portal
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To learn about even more support options, see Splunk Customer Success.

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