diff --git a/benchmark/misc/trace.js b/benchmark/misc/trace.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..75c87d363a6b03
--- /dev/null
+++ b/benchmark/misc/trace.js
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+'use strict';
+
+const common = require('../common.js');
+
+const bench = common.createBenchmark(main, {
+  n: [100000],
+  method: ['trace', 'emit', 'isTraceCategoryEnabled', 'categoryGroupEnabled']
+}, {
+  flags: ['--expose-internals', '--trace-event-categories', 'foo']
+});
+
+const {
+  trace,
+  isTraceCategoryEnabled,
+  emit,
+  categoryGroupEnabled
+} = process.binding('trace_events');
+
+const {
+  TRACE_EVENT_PHASE_NESTABLE_ASYNC_BEGIN: kBeforeEvent
+} = process.binding('constants').trace;
+
+function doEmit(n) {
+  bench.start();
+  for (var i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+    emit(kBeforeEvent, 'foo', 'test', 0, 'arg1', 1);
+  }
+  bench.end(n);
+}
+
+function doTrace(n) {
+  bench.start();
+  for (var i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+    trace(kBeforeEvent, 'foo', 'test', 0, 'test');
+  }
+  bench.end(n);
+}
+
+function doIsTraceCategoryEnabled(n) {
+  bench.start();
+  for (var i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+    isTraceCategoryEnabled('foo');
+    isTraceCategoryEnabled('bar');
+  }
+  bench.end(n);
+}
+
+function doCategoryGroupEnabled(n) {
+  bench.start();
+  for (var i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+    categoryGroupEnabled('foo');
+    categoryGroupEnabled('bar');
+  }
+  bench.end(n);
+}
+
+function main({ n, method }) {
+  switch (method) {
+    case '':
+    case 'trace':
+      doTrace(n);
+      break;
+    case 'emit':
+      doEmit(n);
+      break;
+    case 'isTraceCategoryEnabled':
+      doIsTraceCategoryEnabled(n);
+      break;
+    case 'categoryGroupEnabled':
+      doCategoryGroupEnabled(n);
+      break;
+    default:
+      throw new Error(`Unexpected method "${method}"`);
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/node_constants.cc b/src/node_constants.cc
index c1e39244b359b4..61aa42a8efb6b2 100644
--- a/src/node_constants.cc
+++ b/src/node_constants.cc
@@ -1282,6 +1282,35 @@ void DefineDLOpenConstants(Local<Object> target) {
 #endif
 }
 
+void DefineTraceConstants(Local<Object> target) {
+  NODE_DEFINE_CONSTANT(target, TRACE_EVENT_PHASE_BEGIN);
+  NODE_DEFINE_CONSTANT(target, TRACE_EVENT_PHASE_END);
+  NODE_DEFINE_CONSTANT(target, TRACE_EVENT_PHASE_COMPLETE);
+  NODE_DEFINE_CONSTANT(target, TRACE_EVENT_PHASE_INSTANT);
+  NODE_DEFINE_CONSTANT(target, TRACE_EVENT_PHASE_ASYNC_BEGIN);
+  NODE_DEFINE_CONSTANT(target, TRACE_EVENT_PHASE_ASYNC_STEP_INTO);
+  NODE_DEFINE_CONSTANT(target, TRACE_EVENT_PHASE_ASYNC_STEP_PAST);
+  NODE_DEFINE_CONSTANT(target, TRACE_EVENT_PHASE_ASYNC_END);
+  NODE_DEFINE_CONSTANT(target, TRACE_EVENT_PHASE_NESTABLE_ASYNC_BEGIN);
+  NODE_DEFINE_CONSTANT(target, TRACE_EVENT_PHASE_NESTABLE_ASYNC_END);
+  NODE_DEFINE_CONSTANT(target, TRACE_EVENT_PHASE_NESTABLE_ASYNC_INSTANT);
+  NODE_DEFINE_CONSTANT(target, TRACE_EVENT_PHASE_FLOW_BEGIN);
+  NODE_DEFINE_CONSTANT(target, TRACE_EVENT_PHASE_FLOW_STEP);
+  NODE_DEFINE_CONSTANT(target, TRACE_EVENT_PHASE_FLOW_END);
+  NODE_DEFINE_CONSTANT(target, TRACE_EVENT_PHASE_METADATA);
+  NODE_DEFINE_CONSTANT(target, TRACE_EVENT_PHASE_COUNTER);
+  NODE_DEFINE_CONSTANT(target, TRACE_EVENT_PHASE_SAMPLE);
+  NODE_DEFINE_CONSTANT(target, TRACE_EVENT_PHASE_CREATE_OBJECT);
+  NODE_DEFINE_CONSTANT(target, TRACE_EVENT_PHASE_SNAPSHOT_OBJECT);
+  NODE_DEFINE_CONSTANT(target, TRACE_EVENT_PHASE_DELETE_OBJECT);
+  NODE_DEFINE_CONSTANT(target, TRACE_EVENT_PHASE_MEMORY_DUMP);
+  NODE_DEFINE_CONSTANT(target, TRACE_EVENT_PHASE_MARK);
+  NODE_DEFINE_CONSTANT(target, TRACE_EVENT_PHASE_CLOCK_SYNC);
+  NODE_DEFINE_CONSTANT(target, TRACE_EVENT_PHASE_ENTER_CONTEXT);
+  NODE_DEFINE_CONSTANT(target, TRACE_EVENT_PHASE_LEAVE_CONTEXT);
+  NODE_DEFINE_CONSTANT(target, TRACE_EVENT_PHASE_LINK_IDS);
+}
+
 }  // anonymous namespace
 
 void DefineConstants(v8::Isolate* isolate, Local<Object> target) {
@@ -1315,6 +1344,10 @@ void DefineConstants(v8::Isolate* isolate, Local<Object> target) {
   CHECK(dlopen_constants->SetPrototype(env->context(),
                                        Null(env->isolate())).FromJust());
 
+  Local<Object> trace_constants = Object::New(isolate);
+  CHECK(trace_constants->SetPrototype(env->context(),
+                                      Null(env->isolate())).FromJust());
+
   DefineErrnoConstants(err_constants);
   DefineWindowsErrorConstants(err_constants);
   DefineSignalConstants(sig_constants);
@@ -1323,6 +1356,7 @@ void DefineConstants(v8::Isolate* isolate, Local<Object> target) {
   DefineCryptoConstants(crypto_constants);
   DefineZlibConstants(zlib_constants);
   DefineDLOpenConstants(dlopen_constants);
+  DefineTraceConstants(trace_constants);
 
   // Define libuv constants.
   NODE_DEFINE_CONSTANT(os_constants, UV_UDP_REUSEADDR);
@@ -1334,6 +1368,7 @@ void DefineConstants(v8::Isolate* isolate, Local<Object> target) {
   target->Set(OneByteString(isolate, "fs"), fs_constants);
   target->Set(OneByteString(isolate, "crypto"), crypto_constants);
   target->Set(OneByteString(isolate, "zlib"), zlib_constants);
+  target->Set(OneByteString(isolate, "trace"), trace_constants);
 }
 
 }  // namespace node
diff --git a/src/node_trace_events.cc b/src/node_trace_events.cc
index 0904311dad865b..a2f42249483cd7 100644
--- a/src/node_trace_events.cc
+++ b/src/node_trace_events.cc
@@ -232,6 +232,19 @@ void Initialize(Local<Object> target,
 
   target->Set(FIXED_ONE_BYTE_STRING(env->isolate(), "CategorySet"),
               category_set->GetFunction());
+
+  Local<String> isTraceCategoryEnabled =
+      FIXED_ONE_BYTE_STRING(env->isolate(), "isTraceCategoryEnabled");
+  Local<String> trace = FIXED_ONE_BYTE_STRING(env->isolate(), "trace");
+
+  // Grab the trace and isTraceCategoryEnabled intrinsics from the binding
+  // object and expose those to our binding layer.
+  Local<Object> binding = context->GetExtrasBindingObject();
+  target->Set(context, isTraceCategoryEnabled,
+              binding->Get(context, isTraceCategoryEnabled).ToLocalChecked())
+                  .FromJust();
+  target->Set(context, trace,
+              binding->Get(context, trace).ToLocalChecked()).FromJust();
 }
 
 }  // namespace node
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-binding-constants.js b/test/parallel/test-binding-constants.js
index aaf0ebde5230a8..b8e852b3525ab8 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-binding-constants.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-binding-constants.js
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ const constants = process.binding('constants');
 const assert = require('assert');
 
 assert.deepStrictEqual(
-  Object.keys(constants).sort(), ['crypto', 'fs', 'os', 'zlib']
+  Object.keys(constants).sort(), ['crypto', 'fs', 'os', 'trace', 'zlib']
 );
 
 assert.deepStrictEqual(
@@ -26,6 +26,6 @@ function test(obj) {
 }
 
 [
-  constants, constants.crypto, constants.fs, constants.os, constants.zlib,
-  constants.os.dlopen, constants.os.errno, constants.os.signals
+  constants, constants.crypto, constants.fs, constants.os, constants.trace,
+  constants.zlib, constants.os.dlopen, constants.os.errno, constants.os.signals
 ].forEach(test);