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Jul 21, 2026
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Introducing the ETW MCP: AI-assisted ETL trace analysis, headless and in your terminal

Tristan Gibeau

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...

Performance and DiagnosticsWindows Performance RecorderEvent Tracing for Windows
Feb 16, 2022
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Reduce Process Interference with Task Manager Efficiency Mode

Claton Hendricks

Task Manager Efficiency mode is a new feature that gives you options to ensure certain running processes won’t stress the CPU out, leading to faster foreground responsiveness and better energy efficiency. It also helps you to identify apps that are already running in Efficiency Mode and are good citizens of the OS.

Performance and Power
Dec 8, 2021
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Perfetto tooling for analyzing Android, Linux, and Chromium browser performance – Microsoft-Performance-Tools-Linux-Android

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 built int...

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Apr 21, 2021
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Introducing EcoQoS

Raymond Li

EcoQoS is a new Quality of Service (QoS) level introduced to Windows that developers can now opt-in to run their work efficiently, leading to better energy efficiency/increased battery life, reduced fan noise and power/thermal throttling.

Performance and Power