Demo app EtlProviderApp.exe pushing some example non-trivial trace events.
The Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) enables the consistent, straightforward capture of kernel and application events for performance analysis and behavior analysis. Windows Performance Analyzer (WPA) presents the information that ETW collects in graphs and tables. Windows Performance Recorder (WPR) records system and application events, writing event trace logs (ETL).
This project is a small console application, emitting events. It can be used to reproduce specific setups in a small repeatable manner, to test further analysis tools.
When you just run EtlProviderApp.exe it will print a couple of lines out to the console, and it will also write a couple of trace events.
To record these trace events, you can use the Windows Performance Recorder (WPR).
You can start the recording using the provided profile file etl-demo.wprp.
Run the Powershell script file record-wpr.ps1 in an elevated shell to record an ETL file automatically.
You need Visual Studio 2022 or newer, with the Desktop Cpp tools installed. Community edition should work just fine.
Open the solution EtlProviderApp\EtlProviderApp.sln in Visual Studio.
You should be able to build the project right away.
If you are having trouble, you might need to install a Windows SDK or adjust the respective parameters in the EtlProviderApp project settings.
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