Replacement for Spin Control.app

Question

Since Apple have dropped Spin Control.app—the unresponsive state process monitoring and logging utility—I am in need of a replacement.

I know I can use spindump directly, but I really liked the automated graphical front-end for it.

Can anyone suggest a good replacement?

My needs are: automatically sample my process by name and store the log when the process becomes unresponsive.

Answer 1

I've been desperately looking for a spin control alternative, and I noticed within Intruments there's a tool called "spin monitor". Annoyingly, this isn't shown within the initial template wizard, you have to find it by clicking library in the titlebar first (see screenshot):