Operations automation

Acting on a running landscape without someone at the console: an alert routed to where a person or a system will pick it up, and a command that troubleshoots or remediates when it arrives. Logging, telemetry and health checks observe; this acts on what they report. Running an application's own recurring work is job scheduling.

Overview

SAP SHIPS

SAP Alert Notification service for SAP BTP receives events such as the built-in alerts of an SAP HANA Cloud instance and forwards them to email, Microsoft Teams, Slack or other channels, or triggers an SAP Automation Pilot command. Automation Pilot ships commands for SAP BTP services, among them start, stop and restart for a HANA database and service instance operations on Cloud Foundry, a scheduler, and custom commands that run Bash, Python or Node.js scripts.

Not covered: At the command. What a given alert should trigger, and the remediation for anything the provided catalogues do not cover, is a command the operator writes and tests in their own tenant.

The sample repositories and workshops on this capability demonstrate rather than provide, so core-only reads what SAP Alert Notification service and SAP Automation Pilot ship. Other BTP services act on a narrower trigger: Application Autoscaler changes a Cloud Foundry application's instance count from its policy, and SAP Monitoring Service for SAP BTP routes the alerts of its checks to an email channel or a webhook. One of the workshops triggers Automation Pilot commands from alerts in SAP Cloud ALM; that integration is sourced only from its README.

THE COMMUNITY ADDS

No community artifact is documented here.

Artifacts4

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Services4
Application AutoscalerScales Cloud Foundry app instances by policy rules and schedules
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SAP Alert Notification service for SAP BTPPublishing and subscribing to alerts about BTP resources and apps
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SAP Automation PilotRuns operations commands on BTP by hand, schedule or event
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SAP Monitoring Service for SAP BTPMetrics, availability checks and alerts for apps in Neo regions
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Content6

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Piece, what it offers
SAP HANA Cloud as a self-managed database: Advisors and automation
SAP TechEd — session catalogue, TalkThe reasoning
SAP HANA Cloud advisors and automation
SAP TechEd — session catalogue, TalkThe reasoning
AI-assisted operations: SAP Cloud ALM and SAP Cloud Logging in action
SAP TechEd — session catalogue, Thorsten Sandfuchs, TalkThe reasoning
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Deploy, review, break, fix: Govern cloud transports with agility and AI
SAP TechEd — session catalogue, Thorsten Sandfuchs, TalkThe reasoning
Ship your own sandboxed AI operations agent to Kyma in two hours
SAP TechEd — session catalogue, Christian Lechner, Thorsten Sandfuchs, TalkThe reasoning
Deploy, review, break, fix: Govern cloud transports with agility and AI
SAP TechEd — session catalogue, Thorsten Sandfuchs, TalkThe reasoning
Setting Up Alerts for SAP Cloud Integration Using SAP Alert Notification Service
SAP Community, Nikhil_Gursal, Blog
SAP HANA Cloud as a self-managed database: Advisors and automation
SAP TechEd — session catalogue, TalkThe reasoning
SAP HANA Cloud advisors and automation
SAP TechEd — session catalogue, TalkThe reasoning
Deploy, review, break, fix: Govern cloud transports with agility and AI
SAP TechEd — session catalogue, Thorsten Sandfuchs, TalkThe reasoning

Seen working4

ArtifactSignals
Samples4
SAP-samples/automation-pilot-examplesImportable SAP Automation Pilot commands for operations scenarios
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SAP-samples/cloud-sample-webhooksJava servlets relaying Neo alerts on premise via Cloud Connector
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SAP-samples/teched2022-XP281TechEd 2022 workshop on Alert Notification and Automation Pilot
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teched2025-XP267TechEd 2025 session on Automation Pilot fixes from Cloud ALM alerts
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