Our customers are large enterprises and we need to be able to collect traces on our customers' endpoints in support cases. Especially critical are performance problems. So far we've instructed our customers to use ktrace: sudo ktrace artrace -p appname --type=profile We would then open this trace in Instruments with the CPU profile and load our own symbols. The problem is, that symbols for system libraries are missing. In one instance we see that all of the high load is coming from a syscall made by libpcap. But all symbols other than our own are missing. How can we collect traces which include those symbols? I tried to use ktrace symbolicate in tests where I recorded a trace and then used ktrace symbolicate to collect system lib symbols, but it fails for most libraries, including libpcap and the syscalls. This is somewhat surprising, because dyld_info -exports /usr/lib/libpcap.A.dylib is able to print the symbols including offsets. So what is the recommended workflow for this scenario? Installing Xcode is of course not an option on a customer machine, especially not in an enterprise scenario.

Hi :wave: I am not sure that I use it right, I was not able to profile using these events: I am on a M1 Pro machine using macOS 15.5. I just wonder if these events are support on Apple Sillicon.

Trying to examine performance issues in Xcode Instruments using the Animation Hitches instrument in Xcode 16.0 beta 6 (16A5230g). When connected to my iPhone 15 Pro Max and I try to start a run with my app, it has an error “Failed to split user provided arguments: working directory doesn't exist” with timestamp “(Before Run Started)”. When running the app on an iOS simulator, the instrument runs fine—but I want to profile on a real device.
 Instruments > Settings, Recording Location set to Default and that directory does exist.

Hi, I’m encountering an issue while using xctrace & instruments to profile an application on macOS. Specifically, when trying to record a trace using the CPU Profiler template, I get the following errors: Failed to start the recording: configureHardwareCounters: Failed set kpc configuration: Operation not permitted. Unexpected failure: Couriers have returned unexpectedly. macOS Version: 15.3.1 Chip: Apple M4 Pro Xcode Version: Xcode 16.2

When running instruments or when debug memory in Xcode, I am getting same error as An unknown error occurred launching the helper task Xcode: Xcode16.3 OS: 15.5 Beta (24F5068b) Mac mini: Apple M2 Pro

When creating an icon using icon composer, I cant upload a build to testflight/App Store connect. Running on device from Xcode works fine, but as soon as I archive and upload to App Store Connect, I get an error saying the icon contains an alpha channel

When trying to profile any process with the Instruments CPU Profiler I get this message: (Before run started) No allocated PMI record. Not sure what to do here. I tried other instruments like time profile and that works fine so not sure what to do here... Didn't find any people having similar issues when googling so I'm hoping someone here can help me out. Im using a m1 max 14 inch macbook pro with macOS 12.3 and instruments 13.0 (13A1030d)