ABAP Job Log

ABAP jobs in the SAP system are responsible for the background processing of business data, performing housekeeping tasks, running interfaces in the background and many other things. ABAP jobs can depend on each other, so the failure of one job can cause a chain reaction that could potentially lead to a business downtime.

Monitoring for ABAP job log exceptions is a regular task that can be automated using SAP Focused Run Integration & Exception Monitoring.

Integration Monitoring Setup

Available Monitoring Categories

The available monitoring categories are:

  • ABAP Job Log: Exceptions collected from the ABAP job log (Monitoring transaction SM37)

Prerequisites:

Available Filter Options

ABAP Job Log

For ABAP Job Log you can collect all exceptions or restrict the data collection with the following parameters:

  • Job Name: Name of the job
  • User: User maintained in the job step
  • Client: Client, in which the job is running

Available Metrics

For ABAP Job Log the following metrics are collected:

  • ABAP Job Log Exceptions: Indicates job log exceptions that match the filter criteria and were collected during the last collection period.
  • Number of ABAP Job Log Exceptions over period: Counts the number of exceptions in the calculation frequency (in minutes).

Filters

If you want to filter only for aborted or non-aborted jobs, you need to set this filter in the alert definition, as it does not exist at collection filters level.