WCF Tracing

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) provides application instrumentation and diagnostic data for fault monitoring and analysis. You can use tracing instead of a debugger to understand how an application is behaving, or why it faults. You can also correlate faults and processing across components to provide an end-to-end experience.

WCF outputs the following data for diagnostic tracing:

• Traces for process milestones across all components of the applications, such as operation calls, code exceptions, warnings and other significant processing events."

• Windows error events when the tracing feature malfunctions.

In This Section

• Configuring Tracing
  Describes how you can configure tracing at different levels to suit your specific need.

• End-to-End Tracing in WCF
  Describes how you can use Activity Tracing and Propagation for end-to-end correlation to assist debugging.

• Using Tracing to Troubleshoot Your Application
  Describes how you can use tracing to debug your application.

• Security Concerns and Useful Tips for Tracing
  Describes how you can protect sensitive information from being exposed, as well as useful tips when using WebHost.

• Traces Reference
  Lists all the traces generated by WCF.

See Also

Other Resources

Service Trace Viewer Tool

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Last Published: 2010-03-21