What's changed: Created AZ-120 Chapter 5, completing the textbook (Domain 4 second-half: monitoring (Azure Monitor VM Insights, Azure Network Watcher, Azure Monitor for SAP solutions AMS integrating SAP HANA/NetWeaver internals); backup management (Azure Backup, Recovery Services vault, Azure Backup for SAP HANA DB-consistent, instant restore, restore validation); SAP operations (Azure Center for SAP solutions virtual instance VIS, start/stop, SAP LaMa connector for Azure)).
5.1Monitoring (Azure Monitor and AMS)
Understand monitoring VM/HA/storage/network with Azure Monitor, network monitoring with Azure Network Watcher, and integrated SAP-specific monitoring with Azure Monitor for SAP solutions.
Stable SAP operations require monitoring that surfaces both infrastructure (VM/storage/network) and the internal state of the SAP application tier.
5.1.1Infrastructure and network monitoring
Azure Monitor aggregates metrics/logs for VMs (VM Insights), storage, availability (HA), and networking, providing alerts and visualization. For networking, Azure Network Watcher (Connection Monitor, packet capture, NSG flow logs) diagnoses paths/latency/reachability. These monitor from the Azure-resource perspective and do not see inside the SAP application.
5.1.2SAP-specific monitoring (AMS)
Azure Monitor for SAP solutions (AMS) is a dedicated solution that ingests SAP-specific internal metrics (via providers) for SAP HANA, NetWeaver, the OS, and HA clusters into an Azure Monitor workspace for unified visualization/alerting. It captures SAP-tier health invisible to generic Azure Monitor (infrastructure). Distinguish "integrated monitoring including SAP internals" = AMS from "Azure-resource metrics" = Azure Monitor.
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