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Workload Manager helps you manage and optimize your workloads that
run on Google Cloud by automating configuration checks, simplifying deployment,
and enhancing system visibility.

This document describes the key features of Workload Manager, which include evaluation, guided deployment automation, and observability.

## Evaluation

Workload Manager provides a rule-based validation service for evaluating
your workloads that run on Google Cloud. Workload Manager scans your
workloads to detect deviations from standards, rules, and
best practices to improve system quality, reliability, and performance.

For more information about the supported workloads and the evaluation process,
see [About Workload Manager Evaluation](https://docs.cloud.google.com/workload-manager/docs/about-evaluations).

## Guided deployment automation

The Guided Deployment Automation tool in
Workload Manager lets you quickly customize and deploy your
workloads on Google Cloud, without having to configure the infrastructure.

Workload Manager supports deploying SAP S/4HANA and SQL Server
workloads on Google Cloud.

For more information, see [About Guided Deployment Automation](https://docs.cloud.google.com/workload-manager/docs/deploy/about-wlm-deployment).

## Observability

Workload Manager's observability service helps you improve issue
detection, root cause analysis, and troubleshooting of your SAP workloads
running on Google Cloud. The observability service combines metrics from
your SAP applications, databases, and the underlying infrastructure into a
unified view to help you correlate events and understand the health status of
your SAP system across all its layers.

For more information, see
[SAP observability overview](https://docs.cloud.google.com/workload-manager/docs/observe/sap/overview).

## What's next

- Learn about [Evaluation](https://docs.cloud.google.com/workload-manager/docs/about-evaluations)
- Learn about [Guided Deployment Automation](https://docs.cloud.google.com/workload-manager/docs/deploy/about-wlm-deployment)