ETW

app.config

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
  <startup>
    <supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.5.1" />
  </startup>

  <system.diagnostics>
    <trace autoflush="true" indentsize="4">
      <listeners>
        <remove name="Default" />
        <add name="EtwListener" 
             type="System.Diagnostics.Eventing.EventProviderTraceListener, System.Core, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" 
             initializeData="{A6871CD5-0885-4E6E-AE3E-E62E27FF02BE}" />
      </listeners>
    </trace>
  </system.diagnostics>
</configuration>

program.cs

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Diagnostics.Eventing;

namespace Etw
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            using (EtwLogger logger = new EtwLogger())
            {
                for (int i = 0; i < 10000; i++)
                {
                    logger.Log(LogType.Information, "Test " + i);
                }
            }


            for (int i = 0; i < 10000; i++)
            {
                Trace.WriteLine("Test " + i);
            }
            
            
            // TraceSource
            Guid providerGuid = new Guid("A6871CD5-0885-4E6E-AE3E-E62E27FF02BF");
            EventProviderTraceListener listener = new EventProviderTraceListener(providerGuid.ToString(), "Test ETW Listener", "::");
            TraceSource source = new TraceSource("MyProvider", SourceLevels.All);
            source.Listeners.Add(listener);

            source.TraceData(TraceEventType.Error, 2, new object[] { "abc", "def", true, 123 });
            source.TraceEvent(TraceEventType.Warning, 12, "Provider guid: {0}", new object[] { providerGuid });
            source.TraceInformation("string {0}, bool {1}, int {2}, ushort {3}", new object[] { "abc", false, 123, 5 });
        }
    }

    public enum LogType
    {
        None = 0,
        Fatal = 1,
        Error = 2,
        Warning = 3,
        Information = 4,
        Verbose = 5,
    }

    public class EtwLogger : IDisposable
    {
        public static Guid ProviderGuid = new Guid("A6871CD5-0885-4E6E-AE3E-E62E27FF02BD");
        private EventProvider _provider = new EventProvider(ProviderGuid);

        public virtual void Log(LogType type, string message)
        {
            if (_provider == null)
                return;

            _provider.WriteMessageEvent(message, (byte)type, 0);
        }

        public void Dispose()
        {
            if (_provider != null)
            {
                _provider.Dispose();
                _provider = null;
            }
        }
    }
}