Microsoft Enterprise Instrumentation Framework downloadable from MSDN Downloads
Since yesterday the Microsoft Enterprise Instrumentation
Framework (EIF) can be
downloaded from the MSDN Downloads section downloaded from the MSDN Downloads section. Before yesterday EIF could be downloaded only from MSDN
Subscription Downloads. So now it's for everyone!
For you who do not know EIF:
The Microsoft Enterprise Instrumentation framework
(EIF) enables applications built on the .NET Framework to
be instrumented for manageability in a production
environment. This framework provides an extensible event
schema and unified API which leverages existing eventing,
logging and tracing mechanisms built into Windows,
including WMI, the Windows Event Log, and Windows Event
Tracing. An application instrumented with this framework
can publish a broad spectrum of information such as
errors, warnings, audits, diagnostic events, and
business-specific events. In addition, Enterprise
Instrumentation enables tracing by business-process or
application service, and can provide statistics such as
average execution time for a given process or
service.