Performance and Diagnostics
Platform Health & Diagnostics Tools
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WPR Start and Stop Commands
In this post, we show how to start and stop the trace using WPR. The first step is doing 'wpr -help start'. The command parameters seems to be cryptic. We explain those parameters in detail with examples.
Windows Performance Analyzer “WPA” Intro
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 beyond…but more on that in a future post 😊). Its great for discovering why CPU utilization is high? How much memory is being used in the system per process? Why does WPA itself use so much memory? WPA has siblings that help record traces on Windows, Windows Performance R...
WPR Intro
This is the first blog post about WPR. WPR is an acronym for Windows Performance Recorder. This post introduces list of acronyms that are used commonly performance tools, installation steps, the difference between WPR and WPRUI, and finally about the instance name and the error.