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Windows Performance Analyzer - Performance and Diagnostics

New Android logcat support available in Microsoft Performance Tools for Linux & Android

January 13, 2022 Jan 13, 2022 01/13/22
Ivan Berg
We recently added support for parsing Android logcat logs to the OSS Microsoft-Performance-Tools-Linux-Android project. Logcat is a text-based dump of system & app messages on Android. This is what the logcat log would look like when loaded in Windows Performance Analyzer (WPA) Logcat for performance Logcat is useful in general, but ...

Perfetto tooling for analyzing Android, Linux, and Chromium browser performance – Microsoft-Performance-Tools-Linux-Android

December 8, 2021 Dec 8, 2021 12/8/21
Ivan Berg
Introduction In the last blog post, we introduced the cross platform open-source .NET Core Microsoft-Performance-Tools-Linux-Android tooling. Recently, we just released version 1.2 adding Perfetto support, which we will cover here. Perfetto is Google’s open-source tracing ecosystem covering Linux kernel tracing (and user-mode) and ...

WPA: Table & Graph Configurations (Part 2)

June 28, 2021 Jun 28, 2021 06/28/21
Tristan Gibeau
In Part 1, we discussed the different types of columns options available in WPA's table views and how those views can be configured. This blog will continue the series by digging into how to configure columns for different graph styles that can show numeric aggregations, time, and hierarchical data: Column options (Aggregation/Format/...

Windows Performance Analyzer – Table & Graph Configurations (Part 1)

January 15, 2021 Jan 15, 2021 01/15/21
Tristan Gibeau
In the previous post, we discussed a brief intro into Windows Performance Analyzer (WPA) and its feature set.  WPA can display trace data in a wide array of formats, most of which are pre-configured as presets designed for drilling into specific data points. Here is one for example: WPA's CPU Usage (Sampled) table has a few different ...

Windows Performance Analyzer “WPA” Intro

September 29, 2020 Sep 29, 2020 09/29/20
Tristan Gibeau
If you do a search online for WPA, you might find information for protecting your Wi-Fi, but that is a different type of WPA. In the performance & diagnostics space WPA stands for Windows Performance Analyzer, a friendly but intricate UI that allows for developers and analyst to deep dive into performance traces captured on Windows (and...