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According to Node.js documentation profiling info can be generated using node --prof myapp.js.

Is there a way to convert from this generated format to Chrome's Dev Tools performance profile? It expects to load a JSON format while the format generated by node --prof is not JSON.

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No, the output generated by the --prof flag is not what DevTools expects, and AFAIK there's no way to convert it.

However, there is also the --inspect flag, allowing you to use DevTools with Node, including profiling. I haven't tried it myself, but a quick search turns up e.g.:

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There are two ways for export .cpuprofile:

  • use cli options --cpu-prof
  • use inspector module. See the example usage
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