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An answer to this question has led me to look into using "Event Tracing for Windows" for our tracing needs. I have come across NTrace , which seems to be a good way to produce ETW events from C# code (using the XP-compatible "classic provider" model). However, I am unable to find an easy way to consume these events - to see them in real-time and/or log them to a file. The only way I have found is that described in the NTrace documentation: using a tool which is only available as part of the Windows DDK. In the case of a complex problem in the field, we may need to ask the user to produce a

I need the to write a log message and capture that in PerfView . I would like to avoid using EventLog or EventSource because they are quite invasive: they require registering a new source or ETW provider, which leaves leftovers in the system. Ideally I just want to call Debug.WriteLine (which uses OutputDebugString ), but it seems that PerfView cannot collect it. Or is there some ETW provider that sees debug messages? If you have an answer, please state the two parts of the solution: What should I write in C#, and How to configure PerfView to capture it (if there is some ETW provider, just

I'm working on setting up a WCF service, hosted in a Windows Service, that uses Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) for logging. Currently I'm just focusing on setting up a dummy Windows Service with ETW and I'm seeing some unintended events being logged. In particularly, whenever I start or stop the service I am seeing an event with Opcode 254 and no message. I've tried looking around online but so far I haven't found any references to what this is. If you'd like to try it out, here is the service code: Imports System.Threading Public Class MyTestService Private _cts As CancellationTokenSource

I've been trying to work with ETW in .net 4.0. I have started using Microsoft EventSource Library 1.0.4-beta ( https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Diagnostics.Tracing.EventSource ) Here is the code i written for generating events for my application. [EventSource(Name = "Samples-EventSourceDemos-EventSourceLogger")] public sealed class EventSourceLogger : EventSource { public static EventSourceLogger Log = new EventSourceLogger(); public static string GetManifest() { return GenerateManifest(typeof(EventSourceLogger), null); } [Event(200, Level = Microsoft.Diagnostics.Tracing.EventLevel

I need help solving the "Provider '' resources not accessible when trying to create a windows event provider. I create my manifest file with the ManGen utility, and name my '.exe' file as my message and resource file. I compile the '.rc' file with my exe file and the expected'.res' file are generated. However, when I run wevtutil I keep getting the 'resources not accessible' warning. When you install your manifest (e.g. wevtutil im manifest.man ), you should see some sort of a warning if the resources aren't available: **** Warning: Publisher EventsProvider resources are not accessible. To get

I am interested in listening to ETW (event tracing for Windows) TPL events, in particular I'd like to know when a Task starts and when it stops. Here's a sample program I've used for testing: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Diagnostics.Tracing; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Threading; using System.Threading.Tasks; namespace ConsoleApplication10 { class Listener : EventListener { private static readonly Guid tplGuid = new Guid("2e5dba47-a3d2-4d16-8ee0-6671ffdcd7b5"); protected override void OnEventSourceCreated(EventSource eventSource) { Console

I'm running the very first sample of ServiceFabric (Preview version 1.4.87): https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/service-fabric-create-your-first-application-in-visual-studio/ , to create a stateful service, and although the sample is running correctly, I'm not seeing the ETW output log information in the diagnostics window. The calls to log are made to ServiceEventSource.Current.ServiceMessage(...) , but when this method (implemented in ServiceEventSource.cs) runs, the call to this.IsEnabled() returns false so no diagnostics are written. If I bypass the IsEnabled() call