Today we found out something I've never seen before but might already be there for a long time and seems to happen on all windows agents.
A windows agent (2019ur3) always creates trace files in C:\Windows\Logs\OpsMgrTrace upon starting which may grow till about 100MB per file.
Running the stoptracing.cmd command doesn't resolve this, the files just start over again on agent startup.
Probably caused by a few txt files in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Monitoring Agent\Agent\Tools
Like this one: TracingGuidsAPM.txt
If i remove the file and restart this seems to stop that tracing.
Further in the eventlog "Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-EventTracing/Admin" i see errors like this that relate to the tracing:
Error
EventID 2
Session "TracingGuidsApmConnector" failed to start with the following error: 0xC0000035
Now my questions are
Is it normal that these traces run out of the box and should i keep them enabled and why?
Do i need to take action on that error event and what may that be?