If your organization relies on SAP Solution Manager primarily for SAP monitoring, alerting and operational visibility, Redpeaks can replace that monitoring layer with a modern, agentless SAP observability platform.
SAP Solution Manager 7.2 mainstream maintenance ends on December 31, 2027, which means organizations still depending on SolMan need to decide how they will monitor their SAP environments beyond 2027.
For SAP teams, however, replacing Solution Manager does not necessarily mean replacing every function with a single new SAP product.
The first question should be:
What are you actually using SAP Solution Manager for today?
If the answer is primarily SAP system monitoring, alerting, performance monitoring and operational visibility, this is where Redpeaks provides a direct alternative.
Can Redpeaks replace SAP Solution Manager?
Redpeaks can replace the SAP monitoring and observability capabilities for which many organizations currently depend on SAP Solution Manager.
It is not intended to replace every Application Lifecycle Management function within Solution Manager, such as project management, test management or change request management.
Instead, Redpeaks focuses specifically on the operational side of SAP:
- real-time SAP monitoring
- system health and availability
- SAP performance monitoring
- centralized alerting
- background job monitoring
- interface and integration monitoring
- SAP application and business process visibility
- HANA monitoring
- hybrid and cloud SAP environments
- integration with enterprise observability and ITSM platforms
Redpeaks is designed specifically for SAP operations and provides agentless monitoring without requiring software to be installed on each SAP server.
For SAP Basis and operations teams, this makes the transition away from Solution Manager an opportunity to modernize SAP monitoring rather than simply reproduce the old architecture somewhere else.
Why replace Solution Manager monitoring now?
SAP Solution Manager remains under mainstream maintenance until the end of 2027, but organizations should not interpret that date as a reason to wait.
Monitoring is operational infrastructure.
It needs to be tested against real systems, real alerts and real incidents before an existing monitoring platform is retired.
Moving early allows teams to:
- compare monitoring coverage between Solution Manager and the future platform
- validate alert rules
- identify monitoring gaps
- migrate existing operational knowledge
- integrate the new monitoring platform into ITSM and observability workflows
- reduce dependency on Solution Manager progressively rather than through a last-minute migration
Redpeaks also provides migration and reuse capabilities for SAP Solution Manager monitoring configurations, helping organizations preserve existing monitoring knowledge during the transition.
What does Redpeaks replace from SAP Solution Manager?
For teams using Solution Manager for Application Operations, the transition can be approached capability by capability.
| SAP Solution Manager monitoring use | Redpeaks approach |
|---|---|
| SAP system monitoring | Real-time SAP health and performance monitoring |
| Technical monitoring | SAP-specific technical metrics and observability |
| Alerting | Centralized alerting and proactive issue detection |
| HANA monitoring | SAP HANA health and performance monitoring |
| Background job monitoring | Job execution and performance monitoring |
| Interface monitoring | Visibility into SAP integrations and operational failures |
| Application monitoring | SAP application-level observability |
| Dashboards | Redpeaks Cockpit or external observability platforms |
| Monitoring multiple SAP systems | Centralized monitoring across SAP landscapes |
| External tool integration | Plugins and APIs for existing IT ecosystems |
| SolMan monitoring configuration | Migration and reuse of existing monitoring knowledge |
This is the key distinction:
You do not necessarily need another large ALM platform just to replace the monitoring functions you were using in Solution Manager.
If monitoring is the requirement, it can be replaced with a platform built specifically for monitoring.
From SAP monitoring to SAP observability
Replacing Solution Manager also creates an opportunity to move beyond traditional monitoring.
Traditional SAP monitoring often answers questions such as:
- Is the system available?
- Is CPU usage normal?
- Is memory within its threshold?
- Did a job fail?
- Is the database healthy?
Those questions remain important.
But modern SAP operations also need to understand what is happening inside the application and across the wider business process.
A system can technically be available while users experience slow transactions, delayed jobs, stuck interfaces or process failures.
This is where the distinction between monitoring and observability becomes important.
Redpeaks is designed to provide SAP-specific operational context across complex SAP environments, including hybrid and cloud landscapes. Its documentation describes the platform as an all-in-one solution for extended SAP application observability, health, availability and system security.
The objective is not simply to recreate a SolMan dashboard.
It is to provide deeper SAP visibility while simplifying the monitoring architecture.
Agentless SAP monitoring instead of another complex monitoring stack
One of the practical differences between a legacy monitoring architecture and a modern observability platform is deployment complexity.
Redpeaks uses an agentless architecture, meaning organizations do not need to install and maintain an individual monitoring agent on every monitored SAP system.
Configuration can be managed centrally and predefined monitoring configurations can be deployed across multiple SAP systems.
For organizations managing large SAP estates, this can reduce the operational overhead associated with deploying and maintaining the monitoring infrastructure itself.
Redpeaks states that its platform currently monitors more than 7,000 SAP systems daily worldwide and is designed for enterprise and multi-tenant environments.
Keep SAP data inside the tools your teams already use
Another reason to reconsider the Solution Manager architecture is integration.
SAP monitoring should not necessarily operate as an isolated island.
Infrastructure teams, service management teams, NOCs and observability teams may already use platforms such as:
- ServiceNow
- Datadog
- Grafana
- Elastic
- Jira
- Kafka
- VictoriaMetrics
- other enterprise monitoring and observability platforms
Redpeaks can connect SAP monitoring information to existing tools rather than forcing every team to work exclusively inside another dedicated monitoring console. Its collector supports integrations with ticketing systems, monitoring frameworks and other productivity platforms already in use.
This allows SAP teams to retain SAP-specific monitoring depth while bringing SAP data into the wider enterprise operations ecosystem.
One SAP monitoring layer. Multiple destinations.
For organizations replacing Solution Manager, this can be a cleaner architectural model than recreating another isolated SAP monitoring environment.
What about SAP Cloud ALM?
SAP Cloud ALM remains relevant, but it answers a broader question.
SAP officially positions SAP Cloud ALM as its strategic next-generation ALM platform and recommends that Solution Manager customers transition before mainstream maintenance ends in 2027.
That does not mean every organization must use SAP Cloud ALM as its only SAP monitoring solution.
The two decisions can be separated:
How will we manage SAP Application Lifecycle Management?
and
How will we monitor and observe our SAP landscape?
An organization may choose SAP Cloud ALM for lifecycle management while using Redpeaks for deeper SAP monitoring and observability.
Redpeaks can also integrate with SAP Cloud ALM, allowing the platforms to coexist rather than forcing an either-or choice.
This makes the post-Solution Manager architecture more flexible.
Redpeaks vs SAP Solution Manager monitoring
The transition can be summarized simply:
| SAP Solution Manager | Redpeaks |
|---|---|
| Broad ALM platform | Specialized SAP monitoring and observability |
| Monitoring is one part of a larger suite | Monitoring is the core purpose |
| Traditional SAP operations architecture | Modern SAP observability architecture |
| SAP-centric monitoring workflows | SAP visibility connected to wider IT operations |
| Existing SolMan monitoring configurations | Migration and reuse capabilities |
| Dedicated SAP tooling | SAP monitoring data can flow to existing tools |
| Approaching end of mainstream maintenance | Built for current hybrid, cloud and on-premise SAP environments |
For organizations whose primary SolMan dependency is monitoring, Redpeaks provides a practical path away from SAP Solution Manager without requiring teams to reproduce the entire Solution Manager architecture.
Which SAP environments can Redpeaks monitor?
Redpeaks is designed for complex SAP landscapes across deployment models including on-premise, hybrid, SAP cloud environments and RISE with SAP.
That is particularly important for organizations transitioning away from Solution Manager because many SAP landscapes are becoming more distributed rather than less.
A modern SAP monitoring platform therefore needs to support the landscape organizations are moving toward, not only the architecture they are leaving behind.
How to migrate SAP monitoring away from Solution Manager
A SolMan monitoring replacement project should begin with the existing monitoring configuration rather than with the new tool.
Start by identifying:
- which SAP systems Solution Manager currently monitors
- which metrics and checks are actively used
- which alerts are operationally important
- which dashboards teams rely on
- which interfaces, jobs and business processes require monitoring
- which alerts create tickets or external workflows
- which historical configurations should be preserved
- which monitoring scenarios are no longer useful
The objective should not be to migrate every old configuration blindly.
It should be to keep what works, remove what does not and introduce monitoring for blind spots that Solution Manager did not adequately cover.
Redpeaks’ ability to reuse and migrate Solution Manager monitoring configurations can help reduce the amount of monitoring knowledge that needs to be rebuilt manually.
Do you need to wait until 2027?
No.
A parallel monitoring period is often the safest approach.
Deploying Redpeaks while Solution Manager monitoring is still active allows SAP teams to compare both environments and verify that critical monitoring scenarios have been covered.
Once the required monitoring coverage, integrations and alerting processes have been validated, dependency on Solution Manager monitoring can be progressively reduced.
This turns the transition from a deadline-driven migration into a controlled modernization project.
Frequently asked questions
What replaces SAP Solution Manager?
SAP officially positions SAP Cloud ALM as its strategic ALM successor. However, organizations using SAP Solution Manager specifically for SAP monitoring can use a specialized observability platform such as Redpeaks to replace that monitoring layer.
Can Redpeaks replace SAP Solution Manager monitoring?
Yes. Redpeaks is specifically designed for SAP monitoring and observability and can replace monitoring use cases currently handled through Solution Manager, including system monitoring, technical visibility, alerts and operational monitoring.
Does Redpeaks replace every SAP Solution Manager function?
No. Redpeaks replaces the monitoring and observability role of Solution Manager, not its entire Application Lifecycle Management functionality. Organizations using Solution Manager for areas such as project, test or change management should evaluate separate replacements for those functions.
Can Redpeaks reuse SAP Solution Manager monitoring configurations?
Redpeaks provides migration and reuse capabilities for existing SAP Solution Manager monitoring configurations, helping teams retain existing monitoring knowledge when transitioning away from SolMan.
Can Redpeaks work with SAP Cloud ALM?
Yes. Redpeaks offers SAP Cloud ALM integration, allowing organizations to use SAP Cloud ALM and Redpeaks together rather than treating them as mutually exclusive platforms.
Is Redpeaks agentless?
Yes. Redpeaks uses an agentless monitoring architecture, avoiding the need to deploy an individual monitoring agent on every SAP system.
Replace Solution Manager monitoring before 2027
The end of SAP Solution Manager mainstream maintenance is not only an SAP lifecycle-management question.
For SAP operations teams, it is also a monitoring decision.
If Solution Manager currently provides your SAP monitoring, alerting and operational visibility, now is the right time to decide what replaces it.
Redpeaks provides a specialized, agentless SAP monitoring and observability platform designed to replace legacy SAP monitoring architectures while integrating SAP into the wider enterprise observability ecosystem.
Instead of waiting until Solution Manager becomes a migration emergency, organizations can deploy Redpeaks alongside their current environment, validate monitoring coverage and progressively transition to a modern SAP observability architecture.
Not sure what needs to replace your existing Solution Manager monitoring?
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