mySAP Toolbag for Performance Tuning and Stress Testing

Chapter 7. Monitoring Tools and Approaches

With our SAP toolbag full of a variety of testing tools, from component-level testing utilities to all-encompassing SAP-aware test application suites, let's turn our attention to selecting and piloting tools that allow us to monitor and subsequently quantify our stress test results—because without closing our testing loop in this manner, there's little hope for methodical tuning. And, for consistency and completeness, let's first review the plethora of monitoring tools and approaches in terms of how they apply to the SAP Technology Stack.

In my experience, monitoring tools tend to fall into five very broad categories. Specific or discrete monitoring tools that carry out a single purpose, tools that ...