Dynamics 365 Trace parser does not work

While collecting and monitoring trace, we were getting error as below:

Error:
The ETW Providers  “Microsoft-AX-XPPExecutionTraces” and “Microsoft-Dynamics-AX-ExecutionTraces” aren't installed in the VM

Issue:
Below mentioned providers were not enabled.

Microsoft-Dynamics-AX-XppExecutionTraces : Used to capture X++ methods events.

Microsoft-Dynamics-AX-ExecutionTraces : Used to capture SQL events.

Solution:

Execute command below to enable both events.

$resourcefiledir = "C:\AOSService\webroot"
$inputmanfile = "C:\AOSService\webroot\Monitoring\DynamicsAXExecutionTraces.man"
$outputmanfile = "C:\AOSService\webroot\Monitoring\DynamicsAXExecutionTraces_copy.man"
$temp = Get-Content $inputmanfile
$temp = $temp -replace "%APPROOT%",$resourcefiledir
$temp | out-file $outputmanfile
wevtutil im $outputmanfile
$inputmanfile = "C:\AOSService\webroot\Monitoring\DynamicsAXXppExecutionTraces.man"
$outputmanfile = "C:\AOSService\webroot\Monitoring\DynamicsAXXppExecutionTraces_copy.man"
$temp = Get-Content $inputmanfile
$temp = $temp -replace "%APPROOT%",$resourcefiledir
$temp | out-file $outputmanfile
wevtutil im $outputmanfile

AX 2012 Form flickering issue

One of our customers was facing an issue with Sales order page flickering issue in AX 2012 RTM.

As per Microsoft support teams’ suggestions, they suggested to upgrade it to Latest application and Kernal version to solve the issue. As we were not convinced to upgrade due to this issue only.

So, I was searching for an solution and come across following useful links,

https://community.dynamics.com/ax/f/33/t/209561

https://community.dynamics.com/ax/f/33/t/122283

https://community.dynamics.com/ax/f/33/t/140404

In our case we changed Tab Page style from Fast tabs to Tabs helped us to solve the issue.

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AX 2012/Dynamics 365 operations Performance monitoring related links.

To troubleshoot performance of AX 2012 or Dynamics 365 operations, i am collecting some helpful links on this post.

I will keep updating this blogs as and when required accordingly.

Performance monitoring:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/axinthefield/ax-performance-monitor-101-setup-perfmon-for-continuous-monitoring-with-rolling-files/

Disk:
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/josebda/2014/10/13/diskspd-powershell-and-storage-performance-measuring-iops-throughput-and-latency-for-both-local-disks-and-smb-file-shares/

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/axinthefield/assessing-your-disk-performance-and-your-needs-collecting-relevant-data-part-1/

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/axinthefield/assessing-your-disk-performance-and-your-needs-analyzing-collected-data-part-2/

AX 2012

Performance dashboard
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/axinthefield/3-powershell-scripts-for-dynamics-ax-refresh-report-and-monitor/

AX 2012 Forms performance
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/axinthefield/how-to-measure-the-performance-of-the-dynamics-ax-2012-forms/

Client Access log: (how often they are accessing forms)
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/axperf/2011/10/14/client-access-log-dynamics-ax-2012/