A system and method for collecting a plurality of metrics during a single run of a computer program. The mechanism of the present invention initializes a plurality of counters to count events associated with metrics of interest. The mechanism of the present invention then counts the occurrence of events associated with metrics of interest during a single execution of a computer program. Responsive to a determination that a counter in a plurality of counters has generated an interrupt, the interrupt is rerouted to an interrupt handler, wherein the interrupt handler generates trace records comprising trace information corresponding to the interrupt. The mechanism of the present invention then generates profiles for the trace records, wherein the profiles differentiate the trace records based on the metric type associated with each trace record.