Tracelog and Windows Performance Analyzer

Tracelog (Tracelog.exe) is an event tracing controller that turns on event tracing and then generates event trace logs (ETL). Event trace logs generated by tracelog are viewed using Windows Performance Analyzer (WPA) which is part of the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit.

In this section

Tracelog Overview
Introduces Tracelog, a command-line tool that controls event tracing.

Starting Tracelog
Describes how to launch tracelog on a development kit.

Tracelog Command-Line Reference
Tracelog Tool reference and command-line options.

Tracelog Displays
Describes the elements of a tracelog display.

Windows Performance Analyzer
Windows Performance Analyzer (WPA) is a tool that creates graphs and data tables of Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) events. It is used to view event trace logs collected from an Xbox One console using tracelog.