Observability Signals: Logs, Traces, and Metrics

Observability signals — logs, traces, and metrics — are the three core types of telemetry data that developers collect, process, and forward to gain insight into the runtime behavior of their applications on SAP BTP. The SAP BTP Telemetry module provides pipelines for each signal type, allowing developers to filter and refine data — for example, filtering logs from OTLP, application, and Istio inputs, or configuring Istio trace collection via TracePipeline resources. Metrics can be produced in ABAP environments by creating metric providers in ABAP Development Tools, while logs and traces from Java applications can be collected by configuring the application accordingly. All three signal types can ultimately be forwarded to an OTLP-compatible backend destination for analysis and monitoring.