windows performance recorder

Authoring Custom Profile – Part 3

November 8, 2021 Nov 8, 2021 11/8/21

Sowoon Pyo

This blog post explains EventProvider element in WPR profile and its child elements and attributes. Among many elements of the profile, EventProvider is the most used element and most configurable.

Authoring Custom Profiles – Part 2

December 10, 2020 Dec 10, 2020 12/10/20

Sowoon Pyo

In this post, we enhance the simple custom profile for WPR by adding the system tracing session. Because kernel events provide critical information about processes, threads, modules, and more, collecting the system events greatly extends your ability to analyze traces and diagnose issues.

WPR Start and Stop Commands

October 6, 2020 Oct 6, 2020 10/6/20

Sowoon Pyo

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.

WPR Intro

September 16, 2020 Sep 16, 2020 09/16/20

Sowoon Pyo

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.

Performance and Diagnostics