diff --git a/projects/rocprofiler-sdk/CHANGELOG.md b/projects/rocprofiler-sdk/CHANGELOG.md
index 3d556603bf..b75b8bad58 100644
--- a/projects/rocprofiler-sdk/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/projects/rocprofiler-sdk/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ Full documentation for ROCprofiler-SDK is available at [Click Here](source/docs/
 - Adding start and end timestamp columns to the counter collection csv output.
 - Changed naming of agent profiling to device counting service (which more closely follows its name). To convert existing tool/user code to the new names, the following sed can be used: `find . -type f -exec sed -i 's/rocprofiler_agent_profile_callback_t/rocprofiler_device_counting_service_callback_t/g; s/rocprofiler_configure_agent_profile_counting_service/rocprofiler_configure_device_counting_service/g; s/agent_profile.h/device_counting_service.h/g; s/rocprofiler_sample_agent_profile_counting_service/rocprofiler_sample_device_counting_service/g' {} +`
 - Changed naming of dispatch profiling service to dispatch counting service (which more closely follows its name). To convert existing tool/user code to the new names, the following sed can be used: `-type f -exec sed -i -e 's/dispatch_profile_counting_service/dispatch_counting_service/g' -e 's/dispatch_profile.h/dispatch_counting_service.h/g' -e 's/rocprofiler_profile_counting_dispatch_callback_t/rocprofiler_dispatch_counting_service_callback_t/g' -e 's/rocprofiler_profile_counting_dispatch_data_t/rocprofiler_dispatch_counting_service_data_t/g'  -e 's/rocprofiler_profile_counting_dispatch_record_t/rocprofiler_dispatch_counting_service_record_t/g' {} +`
+- Support specifying HW counters via command-line in rocprofv3, e.g. `rocprofv3 --pmc [COUNTER [COUNTER ...]]`
 
 ### Fixes
 
@@ -120,5 +121,6 @@ Full documentation for ROCprofiler-SDK is available at [Click Here](source/docs/
 - Fix to handle a range of values for select() dimension in expressions parser.
 
 ### Removed
+
 - Removed gfx8 metric definitions.
 - Removed rocprofv3 installation to sbin directory.
diff --git a/projects/rocprofiler-sdk/source/bin/rocprofv3.py b/projects/rocprofiler-sdk/source/bin/rocprofv3.py
index 9499f6242f..ea4a378547 100755
--- a/projects/rocprofiler-sdk/source/bin/rocprofv3.py
+++ b/projects/rocprofiler-sdk/source/bin/rocprofv3.py
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ For MPI applications (or other job launchers such as SLURM), place rocprofv3 ins
     io_options.add_argument(
         "-i",
         "--input",
-        help="Input file for counter collection",
+        help="Input file for run configuration (JSON or YAML) or counter collection (TXT)",
         required=False,
     )
     io_options.add_argument(
@@ -227,6 +227,18 @@ For MPI applications (or other job launchers such as SLURM), place rocprofv3 ins
         help="For collecting HSA API Traces (Finalizer-extension API), e.g. HSA functions prefixed with only 'hsa_ext_program_' (i.e. hsa_ext_program_create).",
     )
 
+    counter_collection_options = parser.add_argument_group("Counter collection options")
+
+    counter_collection_options.add_argument(
+        "--pmc",
+        help=(
+            "Specify Performance Monitoring Counters to collect(comma OR space separated in case of more than 1 counters). "
+            "Note: job will fail if entire set of counters cannot be collected in single pass"
+        ),
+        default=None,
+        nargs="*",
+    )
+
     post_processing_options = parser.add_argument_group("Post-processing tracing options")
 
     add_parser_bool_argument(
@@ -644,7 +656,7 @@ def run(app_args, args, **kwargs):
 
     update_env("ROCPROF_OUTPUT_FILE_NAME", _output_file)
     update_env("ROCPROF_OUTPUT_PATH", _output_path)
-    if app_pass is not None:
+    if app_pass is not None and args.sub_directory is not None:
         app_env["ROCPROF_OUTPUT_PATH"] = os.path.join(
             f"{_output_path}", f"{args.sub_directory}{app_pass}"
         )
@@ -885,7 +897,7 @@ def main(argv=None):
     if len(inp_args) == 1:
         args = get_args(cmd_args, inp_args[0])
         pass_idx = None
-        if hasattr(args, "pmc") and args.pmc is not None and len(args.pmc) > 0:
+        if has_set_attr(args, "pmc") and len(args.pmc) > 0:
             pass_idx = 1
         run(app_args, args, pass_id=pass_idx)
     else:
diff --git a/projects/rocprofiler-sdk/source/docs/how-to/using-rocprofv3.rst b/projects/rocprofiler-sdk/source/docs/how-to/using-rocprofv3.rst
index 8c9938eee8..3e9b04e5dc 100644
--- a/projects/rocprofiler-sdk/source/docs/how-to/using-rocprofv3.rst
+++ b/projects/rocprofiler-sdk/source/docs/how-to/using-rocprofv3.rst
@@ -542,6 +542,21 @@ Properties
         - WRITE_SIZE
 
 
+Command-Line
++++++++++++++
+
+Desired counters can now be collected as ``command-line`` option as well.
+
+To supply the counters via ``command-line`` options, use:
+
+.. code-block:: shell
+
+   rocprofv3 --pmc SQ_WAVES GRBM_COUNT GRBM_GUI_ACTIVE -- <app_relative_path>
+
+.. note::
+   1. Please note that more than 1 counters should be separated by a space or a comma.
+   2. Job will fail if entire set of counters cannot be collected in single pass
+
 Kernel profiling output
 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 
diff --git a/projects/rocprofiler-sdk/tests/rocprofv3/tracing-plus-counter-collection/CMakeLists.txt b/projects/rocprofiler-sdk/tests/rocprofv3/tracing-plus-counter-collection/CMakeLists.txt
index 3feb88a96c..d1513ac1f7 100644
--- a/projects/rocprofiler-sdk/tests/rocprofv3/tracing-plus-counter-collection/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/projects/rocprofiler-sdk/tests/rocprofv3/tracing-plus-counter-collection/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -55,3 +55,43 @@ foreach(_DIR "pmc_1" "pmc_2" "pmc_3" "pmc_4")
                    "rocprofv3-test-tracing-plus-cc-execute" FAIL_REGULAR_EXPRESSION
                    "${ROCPROFILER_DEFAULT_FAIL_REGEX}")
 endforeach()
+
+set(cmdl_single "GRBM_COUNT")
+set(cmdl_multiple "SQ_WAVES" "GRBM_GUI_ACTIVE" "SQ_CYCLES:device=16384"
+                  "SQ_BUSY_CYCLES:device=65536")
+
+foreach(_GROUP "single" "multiple")
+
+    set(_TEST_NAME_PREFIX rocprofv3-test-tracing-plus-counter-collection-cmdl-${_GROUP})
+
+    add_test(
+        NAME ${_TEST_NAME_PREFIX}-execute
+        COMMAND
+            $<TARGET_FILE:rocprofiler-sdk::rocprofv3> --hip-trace --hsa-trace --pmc
+            ${cmdl_${_GROUP}} -d ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/out_cc_trace -o
+            cmdl/${_GROUP} --output-format JSON PFTRACE CSV --
+            $<TARGET_FILE:simple-transpose>)
+
+    set_tests_properties(
+        ${_TEST_NAME_PREFIX}-execute
+        PROPERTIES TIMEOUT 45 LABELS "integration-tests" ENVIRONMENT "${cc-tracing-env}"
+                   FAIL_REGULAR_EXPRESSION "${ROCPROFILER_DEFAULT_FAIL_REGEX}")
+
+    set(_TEST_OUTPUT_PREFIX ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/out_cc_trace/cmdl/${_GROUP})
+
+    add_test(
+        NAME ${_TEST_NAME_PREFIX}-validate
+        COMMAND
+            ${Python3_EXECUTABLE} ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/validate.py --json-input
+            "${_TEST_OUTPUT_PREFIX}_results.json" --pftrace-input
+            "${_TEST_OUTPUT_PREFIX}_results.pftrace" --hsa-input
+            "${_TEST_OUTPUT_PREFIX}_hsa_api_trace.csv" --agent-input
+            "${_TEST_OUTPUT_PREFIX}_agent_info.csv" --counter-input
+            "${_TEST_OUTPUT_PREFIX}_counter_collection.csv")
+
+    set_tests_properties(
+        ${_TEST_NAME_PREFIX}-validate
+        PROPERTIES TIMEOUT 45 LABELS "integration-tests" DEPENDS
+                   "${_TEST_NAME_PREFIX}-execute" FAIL_REGULAR_EXPRESSION
+                   "${ROCPROFILER_DEFAULT_FAIL_REGEX}")
+endforeach()