The Consolidated Tracing Facility (CTF) is a tracing infrastructure that enables you to quickly and easily produce diagnostic information detailing the operation of your applications. This section describes the Microsoft Azure-specific functionality that is provided by CTF and assumes that you are familiar with the operation of CTF in a non-Microsoft Azure environment. See your Visual COBOL documentation for information on CTF.
You use CTF on Microsoft Azure in the same way as you use CTF in non-Microsoft Azure environments, with the following additional steps:
Once you have performed these additional steps you run your application as normal for CTF to produce the trace information, then you download the trace information (if the application was run on Microsoft Azure rather than locally) and view it.