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Running an application's own recurring work is [job scheduling](capability:job-scheduling).","short":"Routing alerts and running remediation without someone at the console","core_coverage":{"state":"core-only","assessed_at":"2026-09-14","what_core_does":"[SAP Alert Notification service for SAP BTP](artifact:btp-alert-notification) receives events such as the built-in alerts of an [SAP HANA Cloud](artifact:btp-hana-cloud) instance and forwards them to email, Microsoft Teams, Slack or other channels, or triggers an [SAP Automation Pilot](artifact:btp-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.","where_it_stops":"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.","sources":[{"url":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sap-tutorials/Tutorials/master/tutorials/hana-cloud-alerts-autopilot/hana-cloud-alerts-autopilot.md","title":"SAP Tutorials — Take Action Following a SAP HANA Cloud Database Alert with SAP Automation Pilot","checked":"2026-09-14","quote":"This service, in addition to being able to forward details of the alert to various channels (email, Microsoft Teams, Slack, etc.), can trigger a SAP Automation Pilot command."},{"url":"https://github.com/SAP-samples/automation-pilot-examples","title":"SAP-samples/automation-pilot-examples — README","checked":"2026-09-14","quote":"Review and validate each automation thoroughly before using it"},{"url":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sap-tutorials/Tutorials/master/tutorials/alert-notification-service/alert-notification-service.md","title":"SAP Tutorials — Getting Started with SAP Alert Notification Service for SAP BTP","checked":"2026-09-14"}],"note":"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](artifact:btp-application-autoscaler) changes a Cloud Foundry application's instance count from its policy, and [SAP Monitoring Service for SAP BTP](artifact:btp-monitoring) 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."},"drafted_with_ai":true,"history":[{"date":"2026-10-26","field":"core_coverage.what_core_does","from":"SAP Alert Notification service for SAP BTP receives events ... triggers an SAP Automation Pilot command.","to":"Same sentence with the Alert Notification service and Automation Pilot named and linked to their entries.","reason":"Reassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): both services have entries; links added, no claim changed."},{"date":"2026-10-26","field":"core_coverage.note","from":"The four repositories answering this in the batch are SAP-samples examples and workshops, which demonstrate rather than provide ...","to":"The sample repositories and workshops on this capability demonstrate rather than provide ...; Application Autoscaler and SAP Monitoring Service named as narrower-trigger BTP services.","reason":"Reassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): removed a count of repositories and named the kinds of newer providers, which are SAP-official BTP services and leave the state core-only."}]},"sap_delivery":{"door":"btp","all":{"built_in":[],"documented_pattern":[],"announced":[],"packages":[{"ref":"artifact:btp-application-autoscaler","name":"Application Autoscaler","json":"/artifacts/btp-application-autoscaler.json"},{"ref":"artifact:btp-alert-notification","name":"SAP Alert Notification service for SAP BTP","json":"/artifacts/btp-alert-notification.json"},{"ref":"artifact:btp-automation-pilot","name":"SAP Automation Pilot","json":"/artifacts/btp-automation-pilot.json"},{"ref":"artifact:btp-monitoring","name":"SAP Monitoring Service for SAP BTP","json":"/artifacts/btp-monitoring.json"}]},"by_flavor":{}},"edges":{"use_cases":[],"shared_tasks":[],"related_tasks":[],"options":[{"ref":"artifact:btp-application-autoscaler","name":"Application Autoscaler","json":"/artifacts/btp-application-autoscaler.json","ecosystem":"btp","origin_ring":"sap-official"},{"ref":"artifact:btp-alert-notification","name":"SAP Alert Notification service for SAP BTP","json":"/artifacts/btp-alert-notification.json","ecosystem":"btp","origin_ring":"sap-official"},{"ref":"artifact:btp-automation-pilot","name":"SAP Automation Pilot","json":"/artifacts/btp-automation-pilot.json","ecosystem":"btp","origin_ring":"sap-official"},{"ref":"artifact:btp-monitoring","name":"SAP Monitoring Service for SAP BTP","json":"/artifacts/btp-monitoring.json","ecosystem":"btp","origin_ring":"sap-official"}],"samples":[{"ref":"artifact:sap-samples-automation-pilot-examples","name":"SAP-samples/automation-pilot-examples","json":"/artifacts/sap-samples-automation-pilot-examples.json"},{"ref":"artifact:sap-samples-cloud-sample-webhooks","name":"SAP-samples/cloud-sample-webhooks","json":"/artifacts/sap-samples-cloud-sample-webhooks.json"},{"ref":"artifact:sap-samples-teched2022-xp281","name":"SAP-samples/teched2022-XP281","json":"/artifacts/sap-samples-teched2022-xp281.json"},{"ref":"artifact:sap-samples-teched2025-xp267","name":"teched2025-XP267","json":"/artifacts/sap-samples-teched2025-xp267.json"}],"explained_by":[{"ref":"content:teched-2026-da112","name":"SAP HANA Cloud as a self-managed database: Advisors and automation","json":"/content/teched-2026-da112.json"},{"ref":"content:teched-2026-da163","name":"SAP HANA Cloud advisors and automation","json":"/content/teched-2026-da163.json"},{"ref":"content:teched-2026-xp201","name":"AI-assisted operations: SAP Cloud ALM and SAP Cloud Logging in action","json":"/content/teched-2026-xp201.json"},{"ref":"content:teched-2026-xp260","name":"Deploy, review, break, fix: Govern cloud transports with agility and AI","json":"/content/teched-2026-xp260.json"},{"ref":"content:teched-2026-xp266","name":"Ship your own sandboxed AI operations agent to Kyma in two hours","json":"/content/teched-2026-xp266.json"}],"normative_context":[]}}