Best Practice 16.2 – Establish baseline performance requirements - SAP Lens

Best Practice 16.2 – Establish baseline performance requirements

Every SAP application has unique performance requirements. Using historical monitoring data helps SAP administration teams understand the baseline performance of these applications, enabling them to identify and understand the extent of any performance changes. Relevant alerts can be put in place to detect anomalies, such as unintended CPU spikes, storage throughput deltas, memory consumption increases, and more complex performance decrements. This monitoring data can be used to further fine-tune performance.

Suggestion 16.2.1 – Collect and evaluate data that reflects SAP-specific KPIs

This suggestion aligns closely with additional suggestions in the Well-Architected Framework Performance Efficiency Pillar discussion regarding resource monitoring.

In addition to this general guidance, SAP-specific KPIs include dialog response time, buffer swaps, used memory. These KPIs might differ based on the type of SAP software and version you are running on. Further detail on KPI and monitoring recommendations is available in this document in the Operational Excellence pillar: