ETW appears to be the nearest equivalent technology for Windows. - MSDN documentation: [Event Tracing](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb968803.aspx) - MSDN Magazine: [Improve Debugging And Performance Tuning With ETW](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163437.aspx) - Ntdebugging Blog's ETW series: [part 1](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ntdebugging/archive/2009/08/27/etw-introduction-and-overview.aspx), [part 2](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ntdebugging/archive/2009/09/08/exploring-and-decoding-etw-providers-using-event-log-channels.aspx), and [part 3](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ntdebugging/archive/2009/12/11/test.aspx).