As enterprises increasingly adopt SAP Kyma for extending SAP applications with cloud-native microservices, monitoring and observability become critical for maintaining performance and reliability. Kyma, running on Kubernetes, generates a wealth of operational metrics, logs, and traces, which need to be visualized effectively to provide actionable insights.
Grafana is a leading open-source analytics and monitoring platform that excels at creating rich, interactive dashboards. In this article, we explore how SAP developers and administrators can use Grafana to visualize Kyma metrics, enhancing visibility into SAP extension workloads, infrastructure health, and business KPIs.
Kyma workloads run as microservices, often distributed and event-driven. Visibility into these workloads helps:
Kyma leverages Kubernetes-native observability tools. Primary sources of metrics include:
Kyma typically includes Grafana as part of its monitoring stack, pre-configured to connect to Prometheus. To access:
Kyma ships with several pre-built dashboards to monitor:
These dashboards provide a great starting point for understanding cluster and workload status.
To tailor monitoring for SAP extension scenarios:
Visualize response times, error rates, and request volumes of Kyma-hosted APIs extending SAP S/4HANA. Detect anomalies and optimize API responsiveness.
Track inter-service communication with Istio metrics. Visualize request flows, detect bottlenecks, and measure retry or failure rates to improve reliability.
Monitor CPU, memory, and pod counts in Kyma namespaces. Optimize resource allocation for SAP extensions running in Kubernetes.
Track the number of business events processed via Kyma’s eventing system, ensuring event delivery SLAs and troubleshooting delays.
Grafana is a powerful tool for visualizing Kyma metrics, providing SAP developers and operators with deep insights into cloud-native extensions running on Kubernetes. By harnessing Kyma’s built-in metrics and combining them with custom business KPIs, organizations can maintain high availability, optimize performance, and drive continuous innovation in their SAP landscapes.