Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your TRACEX file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert TRACEX to another file type
To convert TRACEX Trace files to another format, you need iCarsoft or other Data software.
Convert a file to TRACEX
To convert other file formats to the "Diagnostic Log File" file type, you need software like iCarsoft or a similar tool.
About TRACEX files
The .TRACEX file format primarily functions as an automotive diagnostic trace log generated by iCarsoft vehicle diagnostic tools. In enterprise healthcare IT environments, the .TRACEX extension is also used by Epic Systems Corporation to store web services performance trace data, commonly referred to as Epic TraceX. Users often need to convert .TRACEX files because both formats are highly proprietary and restrictive. The iCarsoft diagnostic logs require specific hardware or vendor-locked software to view, making it frustrating to share engine codes or data with mechanics. Epic trace files are tied to an expensive, closed enterprise ecosystem. Neither file variant opens natively in standard web browsers or basic text editors. For practical use, converting a .TRACEX file to ZIP, TXT, or CSV is the best approach. Keep in mind that converting raw diagnostic logs might strip formatting, leaving you with raw hexadecimal or unstructured data that requires technical knowledge to parse. This file format is notoriously difficult to open or convert because the data is either encoded for proprietary hardware or wrapped in undocumented enterprise containers. Often, only the original software can properly read or export the structured data. Standard online converters fail because they lack the highly specific parsing logic required for these niche logs. However, convert.guru provides a realistic workaround. Just drag and drop your file to identify the format, view its internal structure, and convert it when possible. For example, since Epic .TRACEX files are internally formatted as standard ZIP archives, our deep analysis can detect the embedded files, allowing you to extract and view the raw performance data even without the original enterprise software.
Convert.Guru analyzes your TRACEX file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert TRACEX file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use iCarsoft or similar software from the "Diagnostic and Performance Tracing" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to TRACEX, try iCarsoft or another comparable tool in the "Diagnostic and Performance Tracing" category.
The TRACEX Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our TRACEX converter.