Intro to Reading Event_File Target Data

The event_file target is an asynchronous consumer for Extended Events. This target stores the received payload in a proprietary binary format. Because of this, one needs to use the...

Backup Deployed Sessions

There is a wealth of information within Extended Events. Throughout this series, I have been working on exposing that wealth...

Simplified Session Backups

PowerShell exposes scads of information and provides the professional with a formidable tool for the tool-belt. Over the past several...

Simplified Session Backups

I have demonstrated how to backup a deployed session to a script previously. In this article I demonstrate how to create Simplified Session Backups.
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Deployed Target Metadata with PoSH

This article shows a deeper dive that will show how to expose the Deployed Target Metadata with PoSH and familiarity with this powerful tool.
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Deployed Target Metadata with PoSH

Having just covered the methods to discover the metadata for a deployed session including the details about the session settings,...

Deployed Action and Predicate Metadata with PoSH

I have recently shown that using PowerShell can be extremely powerful in obtaining insight into how to investigate deployed Extended...

Deployed Action and Predicate Metadata with PoSH

This article shows a deeper dive that will show how to expose the Deployed Action and Predicate Metadata with PoSH and familiarity with this powerful tool.
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Session Event Metadata

There is a wonderful amount of metadata available to be perused in Extended Events. Part of the trick is to...

Exposing Deployed Event Metadata with PoSH

In the last article I introduced a power tool that can be used to help manage Extended Events. That tool is...