How to Fix Unable to Start Trace Error in D365FO

How to fix “Unable to start trace – the required event providers were not found. Contact your system administrator”.

High level resolution steps

We can follow the below steps to fix the “Unable to start trace – the required event providers were not found. Contact your system administrator ” errorS.

Navigate to windows PowerShell.

Run the command below.

Detailed resolution steps

Step 1: when we run the trace for first time in Dev environment we get below error

This issue occurs when we don’t have dynamics in event viewer.

Step 2: Navigate to windows PowerShell from search.

Step 3: Run the command below under – C:\Temp This Command Installs all the necessary DLL’s

$AOSSetupETWManifestDir = "C:\AosService\WebRoot\Monitoring"
foreach ($manifestFile in Get-ChildItem -Path $AOSSetupETWManifestDir\*.man | select-object -Property BaseName,Name)
{
   $dllFile=""
   if ((Test-Path
"$AOSSetupETWManifestDir\$($manifestFile.BaseName).Instrumentation.dll"))
   {
   $dllFile =
"$AOSSetupETWManifestDir\$($manifestFile.BaseName).Instrumentation.dll"
   }
   elseif ((Test-Path
"$AOSSetupETWManifestDir\$($manifestFile.BaseName)Resource.dll"))
   {
     $dllFile = "$AOSSetupETWManifestDir\$($manifestFile.BaseName)Resource.dll"
   }
   elseif ((Test-Path "$AOSSetupETWManifestDir\$($manifestFile.BaseName).dll")
   {
   $dllFile = "$AOSSetupETWManifestDir\$($manifestFile.BaseName).dll"
   }
   else
   {
     Write-Host "Warn : Skipping $AOSSetupETWManifestDir\$($manifestFile.Name) as DLL not found"
     Continue
   }
   Write-Host "Installing $AOSSetupETWManifestDir\$($manifestFile.Name) using $dllFile"
   wevtutil.exe im "$AOSSetupETWManifestDir\$($manifestFile.Name)" /rf:"$dllFile" /mf:"$dllFile"
   Write-Host "Finished installing $AOSSetupETWManifestDir\$($manifestFile.Name) `n`n"
}