SAP BTP Integration Suite - New Message Metrics

SAP Integration Suite on the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) is licensed using 2 metrics: 1) number of tenants and 2) the number of messages per month.

As shown in the SAP Discovery Center, calculating the number of tenants is straightforward--1 each for instance of Integration Suite created, i.e. Dev, Test, Prod, etc.  However, the number of messages is calculated based on usage and requires customers to analyze their current integrations to estimate the sizing.  The messages themselves are priced in blocks of 10,000 and pricing can also be found in the Discovery Center.

This blog is to highlight a new capability within the Integration Suite that allows you to analyze message usage for a 31 day interval. This new feature is extremely helpful for customers who want to see how they've been using the Integration Suite as well as make projections for future use cases. 

Help documentation

For a detailed explanation of how message sizes are calculated based on number of calls and payload sizes, refer to SAP Note 2942344 SAP Integration Suite Message Metric Definition.  There are details regarding how messages are calculated across the capabilities in the Integration Suite.

In addition to the Note, the following two figures visually show some examples.  At a high level, message metrics are really based on receiver channels and message payload sizes (not sender channels where messages are sent to the Integration Suite).

Example 1 Message Metric CalculationExample 2 Message Metric Calculation

In order to use the new application, your user will need an assignment to the PI_Business_Expert and PI_Administrator role collections.

In the Integration Suite, under Monitor Artifacts there is now a tile for "Message Usage" under the Usage Details section.

Message Usage Tile

Within the dashboard, you can filter based on a 31 day date range to see the message usage details.  The visualization graph will separate the total chargeable messages from the SAP to SAP messages which are not counted in the message metrics.

Sample Message Metrics for a Month on the Integration Suite

Detailed Monthly Message StatisticsHover Over the Graph for Additional Details

 You can view detailed integration flow (iFlow) details, including Receivers, Splitters, which artifacts were SAP to SAP and how a datastore was used.  You can use the Action icon to further drill into the iFlow as well.

Message Calculations by Integration Flow Details

When switching the Visualization Category to "Integration Flow", you can see the number of messages per component within the iFlow.

Details of Individual iFlow

Another great feature is that any data from the tables can easily be exported to Excel for further analysis. 

Data Export to Excel

Let me know how you are finding this new tool to use within the Integration Suite!

Thanks,
Marty