Software to help troubleshoot slow machine?

I have a MBP with 16GB RAM, SSD and 2.7Ghz Core i7. I don't know why but after a few hours of the computer running, it will start struggling to respond. Flipping between browser tabs gets slow and when I swipe across my Dock icons, they are slow to catch up on animation.
I don't see anything in particular with Activity Monitor. Is there any other software that can help pinpoint what is drawing on resources so much?

When you have the problem, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.
These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
          SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
          View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Scroll back to the time you noted above.
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