Displaying Traces

Use

When tracing is activated, the system saves all the data of the SOAP runtime components and all the information about the messages involved for further tracking. You can use the tracing information to do the following:

  • Review the performance, functional, and payload trace records separately.

  • Search and display traces for Web service provider and consumer calls.

  • Perform detailed analysis of Web service issues that have been discovered with the help of the error log and the monitors.

Prerequisites

  • You have configured tracing. More information: Configuring Tracing

  • Your user is assigned one of the following roles:

    • SAP_BC_WEBSERIVCE_ADMIN_BIZ allows you only to view the tracing information.

    • SAP_BC_WEBSERIVCE_ADMIN_TEC allows you to view and manage the tracing information.

    For more information, see Authorizations.

Procedure

Searching trace records

  1. Start transaction SRT_UTIL.

  2. Choose Start of the navigation pathTools Next navigation step Search TracesEnd of the navigation path and select a trace function.

  3. Choose the search criteria and enter the search data.

    If you want to perform a search for all users, enter the asterisk (*) wildcard character in User Name.

Displaying individual trace records

  1. Start transaction SRT_UTIL.

  2. Choose Add User or terminal or request URI and specify whose tracing records you want to view.

    You need to do this only if there is no corresponding entry in the Users & Terminals & Request URI list.

  3. To display the tracing records for a user, proceed as follows:

    1. Double-click the corresponding entry in the Users & Terminals & Request URI list.

    2. Choose the Performance Trace, Functional Trace, or Payload Trace tab.

Result

The system displays an overview of the trace records that are found. The amount of trace information displayed depends on the selected trace level. You can examine all details of a particular trace record to obtain information about how well a Web service is performing, and what might be the reason for an issue.

More information:

Trace Overview

Trace Details