I'm of the understanding it's actually possible to get 99% of exactly what you're describing if you're prepared to (learn how to) poke around with and squint at

I'm of the understanding it's actually possible to get 99% of exactly what you're describing if you're prepared to (learn how to) poke around with and squint at debugger-style tooling. Progress bars might be a bit tricky, but threads and connections are fair game, and tracing different kinds of loops is even viable too. When I get back into the game with Windows again, I'll be seriously looking into ETW, Event Tracing for Windows. It seems the best startpoint to learn about ETW is https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2015/09/01/xperf-basics-recording-a-trace-the-ultimate-easy-way/ https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2015/09/01/xperf-basics-re... and https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2015/09/24/etw-central/ https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2015/09/24/etw-central/. The 2nd link above has a bunch of links to other pages, but is a few years old, so while the old info is still relevant, a quick poke around this blog's tags finds the following additional, newer posts that also demonstrate real-world insights of ETW saving the day in a bunch of practical situations: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2017/07/09/24-core-cpu-and-i-cant-move-my-mouse/ https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2017/07/09/24-core-cpu-and... https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2019/10/20/63-cores-blocked-by-seven-instructions/ https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2019/10/20/63-cores-blocke... https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2019/12/08/on2-again-now-in-wmi/ https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2019/12/08/on2-again-now-i... https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2021/02/16/arranging-invisible-icons-in-quadratic-time/ https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2021/02/16/arranging-invis... https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2021/07/25/finding-windows-handle-leaks-in-chromium-and-others/ https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2021/07/25/finding-windows...