Tools for Software Tracing

The WDK includes a set of GUI-based and command-line tools for software tracing. These tools are designed to support ETW and to supplement the tracing tools in Windows.

The WDK tracing tools are located under %wdk%\tools\tracing\, with separate sets of tools for each of the three supported CPU architectures. The tools include the following:

Logman

A fully functional, GUI-based trace controller designed to control the logging of performance counters and event traces. The tool is available in Windows XP and later versions.

Tracefmt

A command-line trace consumer that formats trace messages from real-time trace sessions or trace logs and writes them to files or displays them in the command prompt window.

Tracelog

A command-line ...

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