Configuring Logging

Prerequisites

To configure the logging process, your user must be assigned the SAP_BC_WEBSERVICE_ADMIN_TEC role. For more information, see Authorizations.

Context

You can use the error log to receive information about the most important processing steps in the ABAP Web service runtime. The amount of information kept in the log depends on the selected logging level. You can set the desired logging level, as well as the period for which the information is kept in the log. You can also define whether the error log entries should be aggregated in the database according to their error category. This reduces the log size in the database and gives a better overview of the log. However, the detailed error data is only saved for the first occurrence of the aggregated errors.

When you configure the error log you should consider the following:

  • Once you set a log level, it stays valid until it is changed.

  • The log configuration is client-specific.

Procedure

  1. Start transaction SRT_UTIL.
  2. Choose the Error Log button.
  3. Choose Start of the navigation pathError Log Next navigation step Global ConfigurationEnd of the navigation path.
  4. Select one of the following levels for logging:

    • Use Inactive to witch off error logging.

    • Use System when you want the system to log only system errors.

    • Use System & Application when you want the system to log system errors and application exceptions.

  5. Enter the number of days for which the error log keeps the logging entries.

    The default number of days is 14 days, and can be configured for each SAP client of an ABAP system. Moreover, each log entry can be set to another expiry day.

  6. Choose Continue.