In this blog post of my series Use ST05 to Analyze the Communication of the ABAP Work Process with External Resources, I explain how you can store traces of your applications’ communication events as long as required. Beside giving you more time for in-depth analyses, stored traces pave the way to completely new types of investigations. Examples are: Check....

This is the second blog post in my series of posts about SAP GUI transaction ST05. Here, I explain that you can control and customize the trace recording with filter conditions, and how this is useful for analyzing your applications’ performance. With a small case study I show this feature in action. In the introduction to....

This blog post in my series of posts related to SAP GUI transaction ST05 (introduced in Use ST05 to Analyze the Communication of the ABAP Work Process with External Resources) explains the tool’s inner workings and configuration options, and how they affect its behavior. With this knowledge, you can avoid some pitfalls that otherwise would make your performance....

This is the first blog post in a series of posts that cover my SAP GUI transaction ST05. Here, I show the straightforward use of the tool to get you started for ad hoc performance analyses of your business applications. If you have not yet done so, please read the introductory post Use ST05 to Monitor the....

In my previous blog posts Measure your Application’s Performance and Resource Consumption: Evaluate Statistics Records with Transaction STATS and Use Transaction STATS_FE to Analyze the Performance of your Web Application, I have put you as a software developer in charge of your business applications’ performance. Here, performance encompasses end-to-end response time and scalability, which is impacted by your application’s....

As a business application developer, you need to ensure that your apps run with optimal performance. While this holds for all types of applications, in this blog post I am specifically looking at web apps, and in particular I am focusing on SAP S/4HANA applications using web-based access. Your app’s users demand short end-to-end response times to....