You use message monitoring in the following cases:
To track the status of messages.
To find errors that have occurred and establish what caused them.
You have started the Runtime Workbench and have chosen Message Monitoring on the initial screen.
Message monitoring enables you to use the following functions:
Display and manage messages.
Displaying the Message Overview.
Filter the displayed messages by specific criteria.
Configure the message display.
Edit messages.
You can also run message monitoring by using transaction SXMB_MONI. For more information, see Monitoring XML Messages .
In message monitoring for adapter engines, you can restrict access to the message payload for certain types of messages. To do this, you have to create your own actions and group them into roles. For more information, see SAP Note 1370334 .