Modern application tracing

A method implemented by one or more computing devices, the method comprising:

• declaring events in a manifest to enable logging of events from static code in a tracing log directly through native tracing application programming interfaces (APIs) of an operating system of the computing device;
• and
• enabling logging of events from dynamic code in the tracing log through an intermediate runtime tracing component configured to:
• translate the events declared in the manifest to functions callable by the dynamic code;
• convert event logging calls received from the dynamic code to a format compatible with the native tracing APIs using the functions;
• and
• invoke the native tracing APIs using the converted event logging calls to log corresponding events in the tracing log.

One or more computer-readable storage media storing instructions that, when executed by a computing device, implement a runtime tracing component to:

• translate one or more events declared in a manifest for static application tracing into respective functions callable by dynamic code;
• convert event logging calls received from the dynamic code to static events compatible with native tracing application programming interfaces (APIs) of an operating system using the functions;
• invoke the native tracing APIs using the converted event logging calls to log corresponding events in a tracing log;
• and
• include decoding data sufficient to decode the events within the tracing log.