Configuring Tracealyzer

You can configure Tracealyzer options through the Settings dialog.

To view the Settings dialog:

Click File > Settings.
The Settings dialog appears. Make the appropriate change(s), and then click OK.

Available Settings

Raw Monitoring Framework Events

When enabled, this setting will force Tracealyzer to include Raw Monitoring Framework Events in the Trace View. This adds a copy of every event visualized using the Monitoring Frameworks internal format. Raw Events are indicated by a light teal color in the Trace View and in the Event Log.

Raw events may contain additional details that Tracealyzer normally abstracts away, such as low level handles and pointers.

IMPORTANT! Including raw events will significantly increase memory usage and loading time.

NOTE: If this setting is changed while a session is open, you must close and reopen the session in order for the new Raw Events behavior to take effect.

Custom User Events

Configure how custom events — events generated using RtGenerateEvent — will be handled by Tracealyzer.

Default Custom Event Format – determine how to handle all custom events that don't have individual parsing rules:

Option	Result
Ignore	Do nothing with these events
Binary data, format as hex	Format the data using a hexadecimal representation.
C string - Default 8-bit codepage	This treats the data as a C string (null terminated).
C string - Unicode	This treats the data as a unicode C string (null terminated).
C string - UTF8	This treats the data as a null terminated UTF-8 string.

Custom Events Format File – specify a file containing parsing rules for individual custom event kinds (overriding the default format). The Help > Event Definitions Sample menu contains a sample file with various examples. See Defining Parsing Rules for Custom Events in Tracealyzer for more information.