Profile

Article
02/10/2014

Applies To: Windows 8, Windows 8.1

Represents a collection of problem categories and collectors elements.

Element Hierarchy

Syntax

<Profile Id          = IdType
         Name        = string
         Description = string
         Base        = string
         LoggingMode = "File" | "Memory"
         DetailLevel = "Verbose" | "Light"
         Strict      = boolean
         Internal    = boolean
         Default     = boolean>

  <!-- Child elements -->
  ProblemCategories,
  Collectors

</Profile>

Attributes and Elements

Attributes

Attribute	Description	Data type	Required	Default
Id	Uniquely identifies the profile.	String that must have at least one character and cannot contain colons or spaces.	Yes
Name	Indicates the name of the profile.	string	Yes
Description	Indicates the description of the profile.	string	Yes
Base	Indicates the base of the profile.	string	No
LoggingMode	Indicates whether WPR writes to memory or to a sequential file.	This attribute can have one of the following values: File Memory	Yes	File
DetailLevel	Specifies whether a profile definition is used for timing tracing ("Light") or analysis tracing ("Verbose").	This attribute can have one of the following values: Verbose Light	Yes	Verbose
Strict	Indicates whether the failure of a provider or collector causes the start operation fail. If this attribute is set to "false", the start operation succeeds even if some collectors or providers fail. At least one collector and one provider must succeed for the operation to continue. If this attribute is set to "true", information about providers or collectors that failed to start is provided as warnings, instead of errors.	boolean	No	false
Internal	Indicates whether the profile is internal.	boolean	No	false
Default	Indicates whether the profile is a default profile.	boolean	No	false

Child Elements

Element	Description	Requirement
ProblemCategories	Represents a collection of problem categories.	Required, exactly 1.
Collectors	Represents a collection of collectors for the profile.	Required, exactly 1.

Parent Elements

Element	Description
Profiles	Represents a collection of collectors, providers and profiles.

Remarks

Each .wprp file typically contains at least two profile definitions: one for each logging mode. The exception is that on/off transition profiles can be logged only to file, so the .wprp file for those profiles can contain only one profile definition. Each .wprp file can contain at most four profiles: one for each combination of logging mode and detail level. All profiles in a single .wprp file must have the same value for the Name attribute.

Construct the Id attribute value by combining the values of the Name, DetailLevel, and LoggingMode attributes, separated by periods, as shown in the following example.

Derived profiles have all the attributes of the base profile by default. These can be overridden by explicitly specifying them in the derived profile. For more information, see Inheritance.

Example

The following code example shows a profile definition.

<Profile
  Id="Example.Light.File"
  Name="Example"
  DetailLevel="Light"
  LoggingMode="File"
  Description="Example profile">
  <ProblemCategories>
    <ProblemCategory
      Value="First Level Triage"/>
  </ProblemCategories>
  <Collectors>
    <SystemCollectorId
      Value="WPRSystemCollector">
    <SystemProviderId
      Value="system-provider"/>
    </SystemCollectorId>
    <EventCollectorId
      Value="WPREventCollector">
      <EventProviders>
        <EventProviderId
          Value="Win32K-provider"/>
        <EventProviderId
          Value="Search-Core-provider"/>
      </EventProviders>
    </EventCollectorId>
  </Collectors>
</Profile>

Collectors and providers can also be defined in place, inside the profile definition.