There are some good articles in here (recently added) - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/performance-diagnostics/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/performance-diagn

There are some good articles in here (recently added) - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/performance-diagnostics/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/performance-diagnostics/ - but @randomascii's stuff was priceless (I'm still using UIforETW as it's friendliest little ui to setup xperf). I'm still struggling with WPA though (from loading/waiting to load symbols, to sometimes getting right there lost - but often it's helpful). Visual Studio's own Performance Profiler (Alt+F2, Ctrl+Alt+F2) also uses ETW - just more streamlined, better UI - but once it collects a bit too much data, it just can't handle it.