Jess Pomfret goes looking for Extended Events relating to the transaction log:
I was troubleshooting an issue last week which led to me firing up extended events to look at records being written to the transaction log, I typed into the search bar ‘Transaction’ hoping to find something that would do the trick and didn’t quite find what I was looking for.
After a few more failed attempts I headed to the internet and found a post by Paul Randal describing exactly what I needed for this situation, using the [sqlserver].[transaction_log] event. Hold on, that’s exactly what I searched for. I ran the T-SQL within his blog post, the event was successfully created and gave me the information I was looking for.
But, as Jess points out, you can still get to it from the GUI. Read on to learn how.