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Follows two agent fixes and one long-standing inaccuracy. ETW is opt-in. The agent used to bake the ETW receiver into the shipped Windows config and collect IIS traces from every host at install time, with the tracing toggle unable to stop it. It now adds the receiver only for application pools you turn tracing on for, matching eBPF on Linux. The pages said IIS traffic flowed automatically, which was true of the old behaviour and is not of the new one, so Windows now reads like Linux: host metrics automatic, logs and traces opt-in. Windows service discovery. The platform notes said the agent discovers Windows services through the Service Control Manager, without saying it only listed services whose executable it recognised by name. A self-contained .NET service named after its application was silently left out, which on a typical host is most of them. The agent now reads the PE headers for a CLR header as well, so the new "Which Windows services are listed" section documents both paths, the Framework/.NET distinction, and the system-directory skip. WMI is not used. Three pages said the agent reads WMI: for listening ports, in the mechanisms overview, and in two privilege lists. The agent has never called WMI. Ports come from the system TCP table, services from the Service Control Manager, and IIS from applicationHost.config. Corrected in all of them.
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