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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
IntroductionIn 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 ...

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...