Real User Monitoring for SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry environment

Real User Monitoring can monitor custom Java and NodeJs applications which are running on the SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry environment. This requires that the custom applications are instrumented with the SAP Cloud ALM OpenTelemetry extension library (see section Prerequisites).

Prerequisites

For the collection of requests for your custom applications running on SAP BTP Cloud Foundry, it is necessary to instrument your applications with the OpenTelemetry libraries, as described in SAP Cloud ALM for operations Expert Portal - OpenTelemtry @ SAP.

Setup Steps in SAP Cloud ALM

Add the Cloud Foundry sub account to the scope selection

  1. Click the scope icon in the upper right corner to access the Scope Selection
  2. Click the button Toggle Filter Bar to show more filters. Set the Service Status to All to show also unconfigured services. Click “Go” to execute the scope query
  3. Select your SAP BTP Cloud Foundry sub account from the scope selector, and apply the selection

Activate Monitoring

Once the prerequisites have been satisfied, the data collection needs to be enabled in the configuration.

  1. Open the configuration pane by clicking on the Configuration icon in the title bar
  2. Turn on the switch next to your sub account