Providers are applications that contain event tracing instrumentation. After a provider registers itself, a controller can then enable or disable event tracing in the provider. The provider defines its interpretation of being enabled or disabled. Generally, an enabled provider generates events, and a disabled provider does not. This lets you add event tracing to your application without requiring that it generate events all the time.

This section shows you how to:

• Write events
• Write related events
• Publish your event schema to share with consumers

For information about controlling event tracing sessions, see Controlling Event Tracing Sessions. For information about consuming events from an event trace provider, see Consuming Events.

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