etw

I'm instrumenting my .NET 4.5 applications to emit ETW events using the EventSource class. The goal is to be able to capture some of these events (the Error level events) for error logging. After doing some reading and testing, I am concerned about the reliability of this approach to error logging, specifically regarding the possibility of dropped or missing events. If my error logging isn't working I need the application to shut down (in my case it is unsafe for it to run with unreported errors). When using ETW and EventSource , how can I be certain that my errors are getting properly

Since Windows 7 it is possible to activate callstacks for usermode events . This works fine, but sometimes activating stacks for all tasks/Events in a provider is not needed and it would be nice to only activate stacks for some specific Tasks. Is this possible? Yes, this is possible since Windows 8.1 with the type entry in _EVENT_FILTER_DESCRIPTOR when it is set to EVENT_FILTER_TYPE_STACKWALK when you call EnableTraceEx2. On Windows 8.1,Windows Server 2012 R2, and later, event payload, scope, and stack walk filters can be used by the EnableTraceEx2 function and the ENABLE_TRACE_PARAMETERS and