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AI-generatedWhich approach provides safer production bottleneck analysis in Node.js: built‑in perf_hooks or external tracing tools?
The goal is to decide whether to rely on Node.js’ built‑in perf_hooks module or on external tracing solutions such as Chrome DevTools or OpenTelemetry for production bottleneck analysis. Constraints include keeping runtime overhead low, ensuring compatibility with Node.js v8.5.0+, capturing short‑lived event‑loop spikes, and integrating with existing observa