Monitor An SAP BTP ABAP Environment Service Using SAP Focused Run (FRUN)

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Intermediate

45 min.

Cloud Operations, Intermediate, SAP BTP, ABAP environment, Tutorial, ABAP Development

Configure health monitoring and real user monitoring for an SAP BTP ABAP Environment service using SAP Focused Run (FRUN).

You will learn

How to configure communication from your SAP BTP ABAP Environment instance to the SAP Focus Run system using a communication arrangement, SAP_COM_0454
How to configure the use case health monitoring metric endpoint in the on-premise FRUN system
How to configure the use case real user monitoring metric endpoint in the on-premise FRUN system

Julie PlummerNovember 17, 2021

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July 27, 2021

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Prerequisites

SAP BTP ABAP Environment instance with the Administrator role
Access to the Fiori app Advanced Application Management> Health Monitoring
Access to the Fiori app Advanced Application Management> Cloud Service Management

If you run SAP BTP, ABAP environment, as one part of a hybrid landscape with on-premise and cloud systems, you might already have a central monitoring and alerting infrastructure in place. For example, the service offering SAP Focused Run (FRUN) is designed specifically for businesses that need high-volume system and application monitoring, alerting, and analytics.

If you use FRUN as your monitoring and alerting infrastructure, you can integrate monitoring of the ABAP environment in FRUN. Using the health monitoring in SAP Focused Run, you can also watch whether your ABAP environment is still up and running and whether any exceptional situations occurred. In addition, you can use the real-user monitoring to monitor requests coming from business users and integration monitoring to watch the communication between integrated systems.

For more information, see SAP Help PortalIntegration in Central Monitoring and Alerting

Throughout this tutorial, objects name include a prefix, such as Zxx or suffix, such as XXX. Always replace this with your group number or initials.

Step 1
First, you will configure communication from SAP BTP ABAP Environment to the on-premise FRUN system.

In the Fiori launchpad, open the app Communication Management > Communication System.

Choose New.

Enter the following:
System ID: e.g. FRN
System Name: FRN or ZXX_FRN

In General, choose Inbound Only.

In Users for Inbound Communication, create a new user by choosing +.

Enter the authentication method User Name and Password, then choose New User.

Enter the following:
User Name: USER_COM_0454_FRN
Description: Application Monitoring Integration User

Choose Propose Password and save the password.

The new communication user appears in the communication system.

Choose Create, then on the Communication System screen, choose Save.
Now, the SAP BTP ABAP Environment instance is configured and ready to use for Inbound communication using SAP_COM_0454 with the inbound communication user USER_COM_0454_FRN.
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Step 2
Now, you will create a communication arrangement using this system.

In the Fiori launchpad, open the app Communication Management > Communication Arrangements.

Choose New.

Enter the following, then choose Save:
Scenario: SAP_COM_0454 - Application Monitoring Integration
Name: ZXX_COM_0454_FRN
Your communication arrangement opens, showing the associated Communication System and the available inbound services.
You will be using the Return Health Monitoring Metrics service.

Copy the URL of this service since you will need it later.

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Step 3

Next, specify the details of the SAP BTP ABAP Environment instance in your SAP S/4HANA on-premise system.

In your SAP Focused Run System, in Fiori launchpad, choose the app Advanced Application Management > Health Monitoring.
Enter the customer scope and choose Go:
- Customer ID
- Data Center
The application opens, showing an overview of the systems in this customer network.
From the left menu bar, choose Application Check.

The app opens, showing overview page with checks for your systems.

For the ABAP environment, the following checks are relevant:

Check Name	Description	Comments
App. check: HTTP Health API	Application check using the HTTP health API	Check that can be used for external cloud application such as SAP BTP ABAP environment
Availability: HTTP	shows whether your systems are available, based on a short ping that is sent to your systems regularly	Standard check, part of the open component monitoring in SAP Focused RUN

Step 4

Add a new endpoint for the HTTP Health metric.

In the list of application checks, choose +.
In the dialog that appears, choose HTTP Health API.

Enter the following data and choose Save.

Field Name	Value
Metric Name	For example, the name of your SAP BTP ABAP environment service and test
Collection Group / Customer Network	Choose your customer network from the dropdown list
Collection Frequency	1 minute
URL	The URL of the HTTP service Return health monitoring statistics, copied from the communication arrangement. See step 2-4 of this tutorial
Authentication	Basic
User, password	Use the credentials you used when you configured `SAP_COM_0454` in the SAP BTP ABAP environment

The health monitoring agent on SAP Focused RUN is configured and will regularly collect the metrics. Once the first collection is executed, the metrics will be shown in the health monitoring UI. The following metrics are available:

Metric Type	Metric Name	Description
Performance	`abap_core_dump_count_5m`	Number of core short dumps during the last 5 minutes
Performance	`abap_core_fail_appl_jobs_ratio_5m`	Ratio of failed application jobs during the last 5 minutes
Performance	`hana_indexserver_oom_event_count_5m`	Number of out-of-memory events on the SAP HANA index server during the last 5 minutes
Quota	`abap_acu_used_count_5m` (type: memory)	Used quota of ABAP system memory (in ABAP computing units)
Quota	`hana_hcu_used_count_5m` (type: `cpu`)	Used quota of CPU utilization for the SAP HANA database (in HANA computing units)
Quota	`hana_hcu_used_count_5m` (type: disk)	Used quota of disk space for the SAP HANA database (in HANA computing units)
Quota	`hana_hcu_used_count_5m` (type: memory)	Used quota of memory utilization for the SAP HANA database (in HANA computing units)

To view how the metrics evolved over time, choose the icon in the History column for each metric.

Step 5
When you configure your communication arrangement SAP_COM_0454 inside the SAP BTP ABAP Environment service, which FRUN use cases are configured?
Only one answer is correct.
Use case Health Monitoring is configured.
Use case Real User Monitoring is configured.
Use cases Health Monitoring and Real User Monitoring is configured.
The communication arrangement is the technical enablement of the APIs. Each use case needs additional configuration in SAP Focused Run for final configuration.
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Step 6
Now you will configure the SAP BTP ABAP environment service.

In your SAP Focused Run system, in Fiori launchpad, choose Advanced Integration Monitoring > Cloud Service Management.

Choose Add.

Enter the following, then choose Save:
Cloud Service Type SAP S/4 HANA Cloud Essentials
Tenant ID
Root URL, from the SAP_COM_0454 configuration
This must be of the form: https://<GUID>.ondemand.com. Do not include the service itself (e.g. sap/bc/http/sap/gsm_health/)
Description of the service, S4S(100)
Your customer network (as in step 3)
Unique service ID, e.g. S4S100

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Step 7
In the overview of cloud services, select your service and choose Details

Add a new HTTP endpoint for this cloud service.
Enter the same user credentials as you used for the communication scenario SAP_COM_0454 (see Step 1).
Description = S4S100

Check the HTTP connection to the SAP BTP ABAP environment service.

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Step 8
Again, in your SAP Focused Run system, in Fiori launchpad, choose Advanced Integration Monitoring > Real User Monitoring.

In the scope selection, search for your SAP BTP ABAP environment service, using filters if necessary.

Enable your service for Real User Monitoring by choosing Active = ON.

Wait at least 5 minutes to get the first data in your SAP Focused Run Real User Monitoring.

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