Trace URLs <traceUrls>

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05/14/2020

Overview

The <traceUrls> element contains a collection of <add> elements, each of which defines a URL to enable tracing.

Note

Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) is a general-purpose, high-speed tracing facility provided by the operating system. Using a buffering and logging mechanism implemented in the kernel, ETW provides a tracing mechanism for events raised by both user-mode applications and kernel-mode device drivers. Additionally, ETW gives you the ability to enable and disable logging dynamically, making it easy to perform detailed tracing in production environments without requiring reboots or application restarts. The logging mechanism uses per-processor buffers that are written to disk by an asynchronous writer thread. This allows large-scale server applications to write events with minimum disturbance.

Compatibility

Version	Notes
IIS 10.0	The `<traceUrls>` element was not modified in IIS 10.0.
IIS 8.5	The `<traceUrls>` element was not modified in IIS 8.5.
IIS 8.0	The `<traceUrls>` element was not modified in IIS 8.0.
IIS 7.5	The `<traceUrls>` element was not modified in IIS 7.5.
IIS 7.0	The `<traceUrls>` element of the `<httpTracing>` collection was introduced in IIS 7.0.
IIS 6.0	N/A

Setup

The <traceUrls> element of the <httpTracing> collection is included in the default installation of IIS 7.

How To

There is no user interface for the <httpTracing> element for IIS 7. For examples of how to access the <httpTracing> element programmatically, see the Code Samples section of this document.

Configuration

Attributes

None.

Child Elements

Element	Description
`add`	Optional element. Adds a trace URL to the collection of trace URLs.
`clear`	Optional element. Removes all references to trace URLs from the trace URL collection.
`remove`	Optional element. Removes a reference to a trace URL from the trace URL collection.

Configuration Sample

The following example will enable tracing for the sample home page that ships with IIS 7 when placed in a Web.config file in the root of the Default Web Site.

<configuration>
   <system.webServer>
      <httpTracing>
         <traceUrls>
            <add value="/iisstart.htm" />
         </traceUrls>
      </httpTracing>
   </system.webServer>
</configuration>

Sample Code

The following examples enable tracing for the sample home page that ships with IIS 7 on Web site named Contoso by adding an entry to the <traceUrls> collection for that site.

AppCmd.exe

appcmd.exe set config "Contoso" -section:system.webServer/httpTracing /+"traceUrls.[value='/iisstart.htm']" /commit:apphost

Note

You must be sure to set the commit parameter to apphost when you use AppCmd.exe to configure these settings. This commits the configuration settings to the appropriate location section in the ApplicationHost.config file.

C#

using System;
using System.Text;
using Microsoft.Web.Administration;

internal static class Sample
{
   private static void Main()
   {
      using (ServerManager serverManager = new ServerManager())
      {
         Configuration config = serverManager.GetApplicationHostConfiguration();
         ConfigurationSection httpTracingSection = config.GetSection("system.webServer/httpTracing", "Contoso");
         ConfigurationElementCollection traceUrlsCollection = httpTracingSection.GetCollection("traceUrls");

         ConfigurationElement addElement = traceUrlsCollection.CreateElement("add");
         addElement["value"] = @"/iisstart.htm";
         traceUrlsCollection.Add(addElement);

         serverManager.CommitChanges();
      }
   }
}

VB.NET

Imports System
Imports System.Text
Imports Microsoft.Web.Administration

Module Sample
   Sub Main()
      Dim serverManager As ServerManager = New ServerManager
      Dim config As Configuration = serverManager.GetApplicationHostConfiguration
      Dim httpTracingSection As ConfigurationSection = config.GetSection("system.webServer/httpTracing", "Contoso")

      Dim traceUrlsCollection As ConfigurationElementCollection = httpTracingSection.GetCollection("traceUrls")
      Dim addElement As ConfigurationElement = traceUrlsCollection.CreateElement("add")
      addElement("value") = "/iisstart.htm"
      traceUrlsCollection.Add(addElement)

      serverManager.CommitChanges()
   End Sub
End Module

JavaScript

var adminManager = new ActiveXObject('Microsoft.ApplicationHost.WritableAdminManager');
adminManager.CommitPath = "MACHINE/WEBROOT/APPHOST";
var httpTracingSection = adminManager.GetAdminSection("system.webServer/httpTracing", "MACHINE/WEBROOT/APPHOST/Contoso");

var traceUrlsCollection = httpTracingSection.ChildElements.Item("traceUrls").Collection;
var addElement = traceUrlsCollection.CreateNewElement("add");
addElement.Properties.Item("value").Value = "/iisstart.htm";
traceUrlsCollection.AddElement(addElement);

adminManager.CommitChanges();

VBScript

Set adminManager = createObject("Microsoft.ApplicationHost.WritableAdminManager")
adminManager.CommitPath = "MACHINE/WEBROOT/APPHOST"
Set httpTracingSection = adminManager.GetAdminSection("system.webServer/httpTracing", "MACHINE/WEBROOT/APPHOST/Contoso")

Set traceUrlsCollection = httpTracingSection.ChildElements.Item("traceUrls").Collection
Set addElement = traceUrlsCollection.CreateNewElement("add")
addElement.Properties.Item("value").Value = "/iisstart.htm"
traceUrlsCollection.AddElement addElement

adminManager.CommitChanges()

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