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 −