SAP transaction STAD displays statistical data and performance metrics for transactions and programs run in SAP. It shows time taken and resource usage, which is useful for analyzing system and application performance. STAD allows users to specify parameters like time period, user, transaction code, and program to filter the results. It then provides a list of tasks that can be drilled down into for more detail on individual process steps, including time spent and resource utilization like database access. STAD is an important tool for SAP performance monitoring and issue diagnosis.
SAP transaction STAD displays statistical data and performance metrics for transactions and programs run in SAP. It shows time taken and resource usage, which is useful for analyzing system and application performance. STAD allows users to specify parameters like time period, user, transaction code, and program to filter the results. It then provides a list of tasks that can be drilled down into for more detail on individual process steps, including time spent and resource utilization like database access. STAD is an important tool for SAP performance monitoring and issue diagnosis.
SAP transaction STAD displays statistical data and performance metrics for transactions and programs run in SAP. It shows time taken and resource usage, which is useful for analyzing system and application performance. STAD allows users to specify parameters like time period, user, transaction code, and program to filter the results. It then provides a list of tasks that can be drilled down into for more detail on individual process steps, including time spent and resource utilization like database access. STAD is an important tool for SAP performance monitoring and issue diagnosis.
SAP transaction STAD displays statistical data and performance metrics for transactions and programs run in SAP. It shows time taken and resource usage, which is useful for analyzing system and application performance. STAD allows users to specify parameters like time period, user, transaction code, and program to filter the results. It then provides a list of tasks that can be drilled down into for more detail on individual process steps, including time spent and resource utilization like database access. STAD is an important tool for SAP performance monitoring and issue diagnosis.
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How to run SAP transaction
STAD Posted on July 24, 2012
SAP transaction STAD is used to display statistical data for all
transactions/programs or specified transaction/program executed recently. STAD shows time component and resource usage of a transaction/program which is important for you to analyze performance of sap system and application program. User might just execute one transaction/program but STAD might display many entries for that single transaction/program each entryis a dialog step in SAP term. How many dialog-steps are displayed under a transaction/program is related to program/transaction design and how that transaction is executed. You should not bother on that. I normally pay attention to performance of longest dialog steps in performance analysis. STAD is one of SAP performance tools I frequently use to analyze/confirm system/program performance. Following are general steps of running STAD: 1. Run transaction STAD 2. Tell SAP what you want and how to display data 3. Review and navigate through dialog steps 1. Run SAP transaction STAD Enter STAD in the command window and return. Preceding /n is optional. But it is needed if you are running STAD from another transaction window.
2. Tell SAP what you want and how to display data.
This is achieved by specifying input on the STAD start screen which comes up after you press return on step 1. Be specific as possible so system can quickly response to your request.
You can play with display mode to understand the display difference this is used for when several transactions form same or different users are reported based on your instruction. The Show Business Transaction Tots is helpful for you to understand the total resource and time usage. You click the corresponding button to select the display mode. Green button indicates current display mode.
Here, you can specify the period only statistical records generated in specified period would be reported by STAD. STAD reports data from system memory. How far back can STAD report depends on setting. Normally, it is 2 days. The Time is the starting moment for the report. Length is in Hours:Minutes:Seconds format. Make sure the interval you specified cover the time which the business transaction is executed and business result is updated into database.
During you specified internal, many activities from different users can happen in the system. Here you can enter specific selection parameters to limit output so you easily look for the data you need. User it is a sap USER ID either one or all . SAP does not allow you to specify a range of users. Transaction it is a sap transaction code. Remember STAD is a transaction code. Program it is the program name which user is executing. Task type You enter *, SAP would report all type of task executed under specified SAP user whether the user is aware of it or not. If you are only interested in special type of task, you need to enter R for RFC, B for background job, D for online transaction executed directly by a user. Time fields is there for you to specify if you are looking for dialog with certain duration. For example, many jobs under the same user ID can launch Arfc processes varying in duration, but Arfc call process from a job is always > 100ms. And there are aRFC records under that user ID is less than 100ms.. enter
100 ms into time field can reduce what display by STAD so help you to do an analysis.
Click on include statistics from memory you need to make sure this is clicked. If your system is big and you know which server a transaction is executed, Selecting the server would limit STAD to report statistics data from that server only. So STAD can give you the result faster. Default is all servers. I have used following input for demo purpose
Click on execution orhit return/enter key, STAD wouldgiveyou asimple list like below-
3. Navigation in STAD Buttons like
allow you to change the
way which information is displayed or what is displayed by SAP. You might want to use filter to see specific data etc. You can see more details of each displayed dialog-step by double-clicking them or place the cursor on it then click button
. Following your click,the details of the statistical record would come up. You
have to scroll down in order to see all of them.
I clicked the bottom entry in above screen,the follow example is a transcated screen showing a smallpart of statistical recorddetails.
Those buttons in red rectangle are navigation buttons so you can quickly find specific data. What buttons is available depends on system/instance statistics setting and data availabilities. For example, following detail screen does not have a client info but has table button comparing with the above screen.
However, I would like to highlight the button
and
. The 1 one st
would show top expensive table access in the transaction step, this is important if most of response time is database request time. The other is to help you find a parent of a server/child dialog step. The RFC button is helpful as well when you have unusual Roll time.
If you are wondering how to interpret data displayed by STAD, I would cover that in a separate posting.
