Aamir Syed gives us a simple example of using the Extended Events UI to create a new session:
Many of us have not made the effort to switch from profiler to Extended events. It’s 2018, if you haven’t found a few hours to learn about this incredibly powerful tool, I urge you to do so now.
I’m going to provide a quick means of tracking queries with extended events. This is not an example of how comprehensive this is, but I hope that it atleast spurs some interest.
One of the main reasons we use profiler is to quickly capture some real time data. I’m going to not only show you how to do that with extended events, but this same session can be a historical view as it’s so easy to sift through and filter through the data. (No you don’t have to create a table for the result sets ala profiler).
Click through for step-by-step instructions.