Profile Metal application on MacOS

Hi, I have an application that uses Metal compute kernels to do image processing and it is not built as an Xcode project. Is there a tool to attach or launch a process to profile the scheduling and execution of Metal kernels similar to CUDA's Nsight Systems (or visual profiler)? I want to see the information like kernel execution sequence, duration, kernel names, thread group size, etc. Is that possible to do without an Xcode project? I tried the Instruments tool, but it didn't seem to show the labeled compute kernels.

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I was able to do it by creating a dummy Xcode project and modifying the scheme to target the executable of my application. If I enable Metal frame capture, then I can run the profiler without issues.

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