Tracking user activity (including objects/records/data viewed)

Hello everybody,
I am looking for information regarding monitoring of user activities on the system.
I know the main instrument to achieve that is the security audit log (sm19/sm20) but that does not monitor the data user accesses to. I.E., they log the user launches transaction su01 (view/modify user data), for example, but not which user data he looks at.
Insufficient to get that are also STAD/STAT transactions too, maybe user trace st01 or st05 give that data?
Even in that case however a user trace would be very heavy on the performances and on the occupied disk space I think, so I am wondering, and asking all the experts, is if there are standard transactions to achieve the same, or maybe even external 3rd party programs.
Thank you
Marco Baiocco

> Unfortunately that is not yet really clear even to me.
I see...
> I have been passed a generic request to investigate upon tracking mechanisms: the customer wants to be able to know which user have made logon and on which data they have worked (in read only and in modification).
> I guess this could imply sensitive data but possibly also business data.
The question to be answered also is: Is it legal in the country to track all the user activity?
> If there is a solution for sensitive data, at least (btw su01 was just an example)?
I'm not really aware of any but Security Audit.
I would ask the customer what exactly he wants and what he plans to do with the data. There are SAP products (GRC) to help auditing and securing the system but first there must be a clean requirement to find out, which way to go.
Markus

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