Performance Trace: Overview 

Use

The Performance Trace allows you to record database access, locking activities, and remote calls of reports and transactions in a trace file and to display the performance log as a list. It also provides extensive support for analyzing individual trace records.

Integration

The Performance Trace is fully integrated in the ABAP Workbench, and can be called from the ABAP Workbench initial screen.

Prerequisites

To use the Performance Trace, you need authorization to start Transaction ST05 and the system authorizations "Change trace switches" (authorization STOM for authorization object S_ADMI_FCD) and "Analyze traces" (authorization STOR, also for authorization object S_ADMI_FCD).

Features

From Release 4.0B, the Performance Trace contains the following traces:

  1. SQL Trace: This allows you to monitor the database access of reports and transactions.
    See also: SQL Trace Analysis.
  2. Enqueue Trace: This allows you to monitor the locking system.
    See also     Enqueue Trace Analysis.
  3. RFC Trace: This provides information about Remote Function Calls between instances.
    See also     RFC Trace Analysis.

Activities

To start the Performance Trace, choose Test ® Performance Trace from the initial screen of the ABAP Workbench (Transaction ST05).