I've finally become kind of ok at doing Mac development. But the lack of starve hits me 8 times a year and I just have the strongest, "how does any dev consider

I've finally become kind of ok at doing Mac development. But the lack of starve hits me 8 times a year and I just have the strongest, "how does any dev consider using this OS (where we have no way to see what is happening)?" I looked at using some of the dtrace related tools, but it a) seems a dying breed on Mac, b) had some pretty hefty disarming-of-usual-safeties requirements that corporate blocked.