Saving and Logging
File Formats
You can use the Save entry in the File menu to save Process Monitor data in native (PML), comma-delimited value (CSV), or XML formats. The PML format preserves all of the data captured so that you can reload it back into Process Monitor on the same system or a different one. CSV files are useful for importing into Excel or other data analysis applications. Finally, XML emits XML-formatted data that can be parsed by tools that manipulate XML.
Logging
By default, Process Monitor uses virtual memory to store captured data. Use the Backing Files dialog, which you access from the File menu, to configure Process Monitor to store captured data in files on disk. Enabling this option has Process Monitor log data to the disk in its native PML format as it captures it.
The Backing Files dialog also displays diagnostic information, including the number of events captured, processes defined and the capture thread's load status.