SAP Basis - System Monitoring

System monitoring involves proactive monitoring of application servers, CPU utilization, database space, monitoring log files, etc.

System monitoring also includes the following − 

• Batch jobs monitoring
• Database performance monitoring
• Monitoring application users
• Spool request monitoring
• Print requests

To monitor the SAP system, use transaction code — SM51

To check the list of processes, go to Processes icon.

To monitor application users, use transaction codes — AL08 and SM04

Use transaction code — SM04

To monitor update processes, use transaction code — SM13. In User field enter ‘*’ and click on Execute.

If there is no pending request, queue will be empty as in the following screenshot −

The following table shows important transaction codes for system monitoring and performance checks −

Monitoring System Log	SM21
Tune Summary	ST02
CPU Utilization	ST06
ABAP Dumps	ST22
Spool Request Monitoring	SP01
Monitoring Batch Job	SM37
Database Administration	DB02
Database backup logs	DB12