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trace_events: mark it as stable #43294
Description
Affected URL(s)
https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v18.x/docs/api/tracing.html
Description of the problem
Hey 👋
The diagnostic working group currently works on an initiative to re-evaluate the diagnostic tooling list and its maturity.
We want to promote this tool to tier one (Ref), but it seems impossible as the API is still marked as experimental. So then we thought that it could be nice to discuss its status, and potentially mark it as stable.
A few facts
- The module has been there for a while: 4 years and one month (Ref)
- Last API change: 1 year and 4 months (Ref)
Question marks
- Do we have good test coverage for it? I saw this file. Do you think that we cover enough cases? I'll take a look, but feel free to share any thoughts.
- Evidence of usage in the field? No doubt on my side regarding the CLI, but regarding the API, I don't know. Any thoughts?
cc @nodejs/diagnostics
Activity
RaisinTen commentedon Jun 2, 2022
I don't think there's a lot of usage of the
trace_eventsmodule in the ecosystem (at least not much outside forks of node on https://github.com/proxy/cs.github.com/).The CLI currently produces traces in the chrome json tracing format which is considered legacy. I think we should move to using Perfetto before marking this as stable. FYI, even chromium started producing Perfetto startup traces by default after https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/3038802 landed.
github-actions commentedon Jun 25, 2026
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