# Install cargo-instruments with Homebrew

Easily generate Instruments traces for your rust crate. Version 0.4.17 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-22.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:cargo-instruments
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install cargo-instruments
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:cargo-instruments
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.4.17
- **Source summary:** Easily generate Instruments traces for your rust crate
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/cmyr/cargo-instruments>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/cmyr/cargo-instruments>
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-22T14:02:58-07:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- cargo-instruments (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.4.17
## Project history and usage

cargo-instruments is a Cargo subcommand for profiling Rust binaries with Apple's Xcode Instruments. Its README describes it as glue between Cargo and Xcode's profiling suite, producing trace files that can be opened in Instruments.app.

### Project history

The crate first appeared on crates.io in March 2019 and remains a macOS-focused tool: the official README says it requires macOS because it uses Instruments, selecting either the older instruments command or xcrun xctrace depending on the macOS version.

### Adoption history

Homebrew packages cargo-instruments as a formula, and the official README presents brew install cargo-instruments as the simplest installation path. Crates.io metadata reported 47,159 downloads and version 0.4.17 when checked on 2026-06-30.

### How it is used

Users run cargo instruments against a package binary, example, or benchmark target, choose an Instruments template such as Allocations or Time Profiler, and inspect the generated .trace output under target/instruments or another requested path.

### Why package nerds care

It is a niche but useful bridge between the Rust package workflow and Apple's native profiler, notable because it exposes Instruments through a cargo subcommand instead of requiring users to manually stage and launch binaries.

### Timeline

- 2019: First crates.io release 0.1.0.
- 2026: Crates.io latest version 0.4.17 and Homebrew stable version 0.4.17.

### Related projects

- Related tooling includes Cargo itself and Xcode Instruments; cargo-instruments delegates profiling to Apple's Instruments/xctrace tooling.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/cmyr/cargo-instruments>
- <https://github.com/cmyr/cargo-instruments>
- <https://github.com/cmyr/cargo-instruments#readme>
- <https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/cargo-instruments>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/cargo-instruments.json>


## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for cargo-instruments. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.



## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/cargo-instruments.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/cargo-instruments.yml)


## Sources

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