Chapter 12. Inside ETW

In this chapter

ETW Architecture
Existing ETW Instrumentation in Windows
Understanding ETW Stack-Walk Events
Adding ETW Logging to Your Code
Boot Tracing in ETW
Summary

This chapter delves into how the Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) framework is designed, and it explains important concepts that will help you understand how to best use Xperf and other ETW-based tools in your profiling and tracing investigations.

After a brief introduction to the basic components that drive the operations of ETW, this chapter covers the existing instrumentation in the operating system (OS). Although ETW has been around since the Microsoft Windows 2000 release, it wasn’t until Windows Vista that important parts of the operating system got heavily ...

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