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Status Planned for future release
Workspace Instana
Categories Agent
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 18, 2024

Need instana support for tracing of SAP MES (base on NetWeaver)

Background:

  1. CATL(www.catl.com) has ranked first in global power battery usage for 7 consecutive years, with Y23 Rev of over CNY 400 billion and net profit of over CNY 40 billion. It is an absolute industry leader and has an influential power on the upstream and downstream of new energy storage, as well as the automotive industry.
  2. CATL currently using Dynatrace as their core APM / Observability tool for monitoing  SAP MES(base on NetWeaver) where they are currently contracted with Dynatrace and will soon be renewing. 
  3. Due to Dynatrace is very expensive, CATL has the need to acquire  a more cost-effective APM technology platform to monitoring their SAP MES. It's a  very good targes  win back customer.

Situation:

 1.  Instana does not currently support  SAP MES ( SAP JVM and  SAP Illuminator services) the tracking level.

Request:

Add support for tracing of  SAP  MES (base on NetWeaver/ SAP JVM).  

Idea priority Urgent
  • Admin
    SRIDHAR Venkatesh
    Reply
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    May 1, 2024

    MES support requires the SAP Java Netweaver support first. This is planned for 2H 2024 and MES will be tested as part of this.