November 25, 2003 09:25 PM

Inside Event Tracing for Windows

A little-known but useful subsystem
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Darren Mar-Elia
Windows IT Pro
InstantDoc ID #40707
The Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) subsystem is a powerful tool for your performance-testing and diagnostics arsenal. Microsoft created ETW to give developers a mechanism with which to determine their applications' performance effects on Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000 platforms. However, administrators can use ETW to find out what's happening in their internal Windows systems, Microsoft applications (e.g., Microsoft IIS), and third-party applications and troubleshoot any prob...

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Good article but lacks in detail. Wwhat if I want to write code to analyze the ETL file myself? And how can registry be manipulated to enable tracing?

pranay 7/7/2004 5:33:30 AM

Very interesting.
For some reason local and even domain admin account didn't give me enough rights to start a log session with system providers.

israel 6/1/2004 6:52:05 AM

Really enjoyed this article..great to have monitoring techniques that can provide so much more information and for what seems to be less of a system overhead as well.

John 1/5/2004 3:51:03 AM

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