ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE in fs.watch configuration

Implementing file system monitoring with fs.watch often leads to inconsistent behavior due to platform-specific implementations, such as inotify on Linux and FSEvents on macOS. While the documentation notes that the method is not guaranteed to be reliable across all environments, developers struggle to distinguish between legitimate configuration errors and inherent platform limitations.

A specific challenge arises when handling the ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE error emitted when an invalid path or options object is provided. However, even when the arguments are valid, the system may emit duplicate 'rename' events on Linux or silently miss rapid consecutive changes on macOS without triggering an error or warning.

The goal is to establish a robust alerting strategy that catches critical misconfigurations without flooding logging systems with expected platform-level noise or coalesced events.

• What is the best practice for filtering process.on('warning') events to isolate actionable fs.watch failures from transient noise?
• Can one programmatically detect if an event was missed on macOS without relying on external polling?