Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) in .NET

By Kathleen Dollard
Learn about a tracing system that is dead simple to code, already contains much of what you want to trace and is so blazingly fast you can leave it in place while your code runs in production. This course shows you how to harness ETW (Event Tracing for Windows), .NET’s EventSource and Semantic Tracing design.
Course info
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Feb 4, 2014
Duration
2h 48m
Table of contents
Semantic Tracing
Overview 1m Why Tracing is Changing 3m Semantic Tracing 2m Tracing vs. Auditing 2m The Case Against Dependency Injection for Tracing 2m Semantic Tracing Strategy 5m Summary 1m
ETW Design
Overview 1m Tracing 3m ETW Design 2m Tracing Roadmap 4m ETW Manifests 3m Audiences and Channels 2m Simple PerfView Demo 4m Summary 1m
EventSource
Overview 1m Simplest EventSource Demo 5m EventSource Structure 3m Event Structure 4m Recommended EventSource Demo 1m Comparing a Few Trace Techniques 4m Summary 0m
Advanced EventSource
Overview 1m Viewing Manifests 3m Manifest Details 4m Complex EventSource 3m Alternate Event Mapping 5m Channel Support 5m Localizing Traces 4m Features Across .NET and NuGet Versions 4m Summary 1m
Semantic Logging Application Block (SLAB)
Overview 0m SLAB Benefits 4m SLAB Design 2m Installing In-Proc SLAB 1m In-Proc SLAB Usage 5m Common Features - Sinks, Formatters and Color Mappers 3m Installing Out of Proc SLAB 1m Out of Proc SLAB Usage 6m Summary 2m
ETW Tools
Overview 2m Logman to Find Installed Providers 1m PerfView as a Controller 4m PerfView as a Consumer 4m PerfView to Explore Exceptions 3m Installing WPR and WPA 1m Windows Performance Recorder (WPR) 3m WPR Profiles 4m Recording with WPRD 1m Windows Performance Analyzer (WPA) for Evaluating Traces 2m Code Generation for EventSource Classes 7m Summary 1m
Guidance
Overview 3m Structural Guidelines 2m Performance 6m Keywords, Opcodes, Tasks and Severity Level 3m Versioning 2m A Quick Break for a Story 1m Interface Implementation 3m Summary 3m
Description
Course info
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Feb 4, 2014
Duration
2h 48m
Description

Teach your applications to communicate while they are in production! Event Tracing for Windows is a blazingly fast logging system built into the operating system, .NET and many libraries. This course will teach you how to access thousands of events your applications are already producing and add signpost events with application state decoupled from tracing technology with Semantic Tracing. You’ll see the latest in tracing technology for .NET with EventSource, the Semantic Logging Application Block, and the newly released NuGet versions of EventSource. You’ll learn to add logging to your apps, use existing tools and create new ones, and access Event Viewer, all in the context of better debugging, profiling and application management.

About the author
Kathleen Dollard
About the author

Kathleen Dollard is a .NET Team Coach, has been a Microsoft MVP since 1998, and is an ASP.NET Insider.

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