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Debugging rarely starts with a clear answer. An app crashes, a service hangs, a driver fails, or a kernel dump offers few clues. Whether you’re working with a live target, crash dump, or Time Travel Debugging (TTD) trace, the first question is the same: Where do I start, and what should I investigate next?  Today we’re introducing WinDbg MCP, a ...

Windows Performance Analyzer (WPA) is one of the most powerful tools available for understanding system performance on Windows. It helps engineers investigate Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) traces across CPU, memory, disk, networking, scheduling, input, and many other areas of the operating system. That power also comes with complexity. A singl...

If you’ve ever opened an ETL trace with hundreds of data tables and wondered “where do I even start?” This post is for you. We’re releasing an early preview of the ETW MCP, a Model Context Protocol server that lets GitHub Copilot, or any MCP-aware AI assistant, read, query, and reason over Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) traces the same way an expe...