An analytics mediator facilitates operations of an analytics engine and a corresponding analytics user interface (UI) in analyzing operations of a plurality of microservices. The analytics mediator enables the analytics engine to execute various types of conventional and new types of analyses with respect to the microservices, and to present the results of such analyses using the analytics UI, in a manner that is highly convenient and efficient for a user of the analytics engine, while also maintaining an independence, scalability, and other advantageous features of the microservices.