General

You can find information on the cause of an error by checking the SAP Gateway Error Log
(error log). To access the error log, use one of the following options:

• ABAP Development Tools (ADT). For more information, see chapter Launch SAP
Gateway Error Log with ADT.
• SAP GUI – several transactions are available to access the error log. For more
information, see chapter Launch SAP Gateway Error Log with SAP GUI.

Launch SAP Gateway Error Log with the ABAP Development Tools (ADT)
To enable the ADT Feed Reader for the error log, proceed as follows:

1. Open the ADT and choose the Feed Reader view

2. In the project explorer, right-click the project in which the error log should be shown
and choose Add Feed Query from the context menu.
3. Double-click the SAP Gateway Error Log feed query or highlight it and press next to
open the Feed Query Configuration dialog box.
You can customize the feed query by
• Displaying notification messages and refreshing the interval (time in which the
error log information is updated)
• Paging with size (number of logs displayed)
• Applying the filters
4. Click Finish to save your entries.

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Error Log
On the Feed Reader view, you can see the error log and the error information. See details of
error entries on the right-hand side. Within the error log, you can find frontend and backend
errors. To differentiate between frontend and backend errors a Frontend Error and Backend
Error prefix was introduced.