The good thing about SAP is that it logs a lot of information about internal activity and performance. Unfortunately, it is not readily accessible.
A Project was launched in late 2011 called SAPninja, which provides a way of harvesting SAP log and performance data and staging it in a way for ready ingestion by Splunk (and other applications). There's also a Splunk App launched at the same time called Splunk For SAP. Check out this thread for further discussion.
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