Analyzing Performance Data
Prerequisites
Once you have switched off the performance trace, you can analyze the data The data is analyzed, even repeatedly, until its trace records are overwritten in the trace file. The trace files are managed by the SAP system. You can therefore keep a trace file for editing and delete it later through the menu Performance Trace->Save Trace, Display Saved Trace, and Delete Saved Trace.
Procedure: Overview
Before you start analyzing the trace records, you must first switch off the Performance Trace. (It is also possible to display a trace without switching it off beforehand. In this case, however, the display procedure is also recorded in the trace file, in accordance with the set filter criteria for the trace.
For more
information, refer to:
Stopping the
Trace Recording.
Before displaying the trace records, you can use a display filter to specify the records to be edited and the information that you want to look at.
For more
information, refer to:
Display
Filters.
When you display the trace records, you can choose between a basic list and an extended list. Both lists display an overview of the logged actions and performance data. In addition, you can display a trace list sorted by time.
For more
information, refer to:
Displaying
Lists of Trace Records.
In both lists – the simple trace list and the extended list – you have the same range of functions for analyzing the listed statements and other performance data.
The time-sorted trace lists is only slightly different from the trace lists mentioned above. For more information on the transaction, process type, client, and user, call up the function Display->User, Transaction and so on…… in the Goto menu.
For more
information, refer to:
Analyzing Trace
Records
Other
analysis options depend on the trace types that you are using. See also:
SQL Trace
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