dotnet-wtrace

dotnet-wtrace is an open-source program based on EventPipes, a MS runtime component used for collecting tracing data and managing events.

dotnet-wtrace is accessible via a command-line interface and, with custom commands, lets you live trace and read events from .NET Core applications and processes.

The tool has dedicated handlers and lets you filter results and outputted information for targeting issues or narrowing down results.

Moreover, as mentioned by the developer of dotnet-wtrace, the tool reports some of the most recurrently-checked events, such as handlers for the network (to received network events), loader (to get assembly loader events), GC (to receive GC events), ASP.NET Core (to obtain ASP.NET Core events), and EF Core (for, obviously, EF Core, the MS's lightweight Entity Framework).

The application lets you pass in parameters and arguments when executing commands, show wtrace-dotnet diagnostics logs, manage new processes in a different-window console, and disable colored-log reporting.

Plus, you can create filters with multiple event definition keywords (name, path, or details) and logical operators, such as '=' (equals), <> (does not equal), '<=' (ends with), '>=' (starts with), '~' (contains).

To conclude, if you are a .NET developer or tester and need to test applications in real-time, dotnet-wtrace is the application to use. Moreover, compared to a Microsoft's dotnet-trace, this open-source program shows events as they arrive (with a minor delay due to buffering).