diff --git a/doc/api/tracing.md b/doc/api/tracing.md
index e03477b1adf20c..fbfa2941eff9ed 100644
--- a/doc/api/tracing.md
+++ b/doc/api/tracing.md
@@ -19,3 +19,7 @@ node --trace-events-enabled --trace-event-categories v8,node,node.async_hooks se
 Running Node.js with tracing enabled will produce log files that can be opened
 in the [`chrome://tracing`](https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/trace-event-profiling-tool)
 tab of Chrome.
+
+Starting with Node 10.0.0, the tracing system uses the same time source as the
+one used by `process.hrtime()` however the trace-event timestamps are expressed
+in microseconds, unlike `process.hrtime()` which returns nanoseconds.
diff --git a/src/tracing/agent.h b/src/tracing/agent.h
index bd8e90004b015c..203f53be7eaecc 100644
--- a/src/tracing/agent.h
+++ b/src/tracing/agent.h
@@ -8,7 +8,14 @@
 namespace node {
 namespace tracing {
 
-using v8::platform::tracing::TracingController;
+class TracingController : public v8::platform::tracing::TracingController {
+ public:
+  TracingController() : v8::platform::tracing::TracingController() {}
+
+  int64_t CurrentTimestampMicroseconds() override {
+    return uv_hrtime() / 1000;
+  }
+};
 
 class Agent {
  public: