LOlowleveldesign·Jan 30, 2021Submission
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wtrace
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lowleveldesign / wtrace
wtrace
Command line tracing tool for Windows, based on ETW.
2Distinct people
4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
698GitHub stars
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What it is
Command line tracing tool for Windows, based on ETW.
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Where it is used
No documented product use has been verified yet.
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Mentions over time
HN mentions by year4 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2017-02-28 06:46:29 UTC to 2021-01-30 07:09:03 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesThe executable can be found on the release page [1]. I don't know any Windows ports of ltrace, ktrace, or dtrace. But you may have a look at the list of ETW events [2] supported by the Windows kernel and you should find the ones you need for your diagnosis. With each version of Windows the list of event providers for different parts of the system is also growing (you may use 'logman query providers' to list them).
[1] https://github.com/lowleveldesign/wtrace/releases/download/1...
[2] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3...
In Show HN: Wtrace – A command line tracing tool for Windows, based on ETWLooks like the output is flat text, so powershell pipes:
wtrace mspaint | where {$_.syscall -eq "FileIO/Close" }
Don't yet work. I've made a humble feature request (https://github.com/lowleveldesign/wtrace/issues/1) if anyone is interested.
Filtering by time or file, JSON/csv output and all the other powershell goodness would be awesome for a tool like this.
In Show HN: Wtrace – A command line tracing tool for Windows, based on ETWShow HN: Wtrace – A command line tracing tool for Windows, based on ETW
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