SAP HANA Under Pressure, Part 1: How to Diagnose Slowdowns with Wait-Based Analysis

The article argues that diagnosing SAP HANA slowdowns requires shifting from monitoring infrastructure symptoms, such as CPU or memory usage, to performing a wait-based analysis of where workload is actually accumulating. By using tools like SolarWinds DPA to correlate SQL activity, blocking chains, and resource trends with historical data, database teams can more effectively identify root causes and move past disconnected, symptom-focused troubleshooting.