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 −