SAP BTP Cloud Logging Skill

Service Overview

SAP Cloud Logging is an instance-based observability service built on OpenSearch that stores, visualizes, and analyzes application logs, metrics, and traces from SAP BTP Cloud Foundry, Kyma, Kubernetes, and other runtime environments.

Key Capabilities:

• Ingest logs, metrics, and traces via OpenTelemetry (OTLP) or JSON API
• Ingest application and request logs from Cloud Foundry runtime
• Configure data retention (1-90 days)
• Visualize and analyze data in OpenSearch Dashboards
• Create custom dashboards and alerts
• SAML authentication via SAP Identity Authentication Service

Service Plans

Important: Plan updates are not supported. Migration requires running instances in parallel.

Quick Start

Prerequisites

1. SAP BTP Global Account
2. Subaccount with Cloud Logging entitlement
3. (Recommended) SAP Cloud Identity Services tenant for SAML authentication

Note for SAP Build Code Users: If using SAP Build Code, follow the SAP Build Code Initial Setup instructions instead. Cloud Logging in SAP Build Code is available for evaluation purposes only.

Instance Creation Options

Choose one method based on your workflow:

Option 1: SAP BTP Cockpit (UI)

1. Navigate to Subaccount → Instances and Subscriptions → Create
2. Select cloud-logging service and plan
3. Configure parameters (see Configuration section)
4. Create service key for credentials

Option 2: Cloud Foundry CLI

cf create-service cloud-logging standard my-cls-instance -c '{
  "retention_period": 14,
  "backend": { "max_data_nodes": 10 },
  "ingest": { "max_instances": 10 }
}'

# Wait for provisioning
cf services  # Check "last operation" status

# Create service key
cf create-service-key my-cls-instance my-cls-key
cf service-key my-cls-instance my-cls-key

Option 3: SAP BTP CLI

btp create services/instance \
  --subaccount <SUBACCOUNT_ID> \
  --name my-cls-instance \
  --offering-name "cloud-logging" \
  --plan-name standard \
  --parameters '{"retention_period": 14}'

# Create binding
btp create services/binding \
  --subaccount <SUBACCOUNT_ID> \
  --name my-cls-binding \
  --instance-name my-cls-instance

# Get credentials
btp get services/binding --name my-cls-binding --subaccount <SUBACCOUNT_ID>

Option 4: SAP BTP Service Operator (Kubernetes/Kyma)

apiVersion: services.cloud.sap.com/v1