Sentry node profiler crashen on non-LTS nodejs version

[drago1520]

Environment

self-hosted (https://develop.sentry.dev/self-hosted/)

Steps to Reproduce

1. Install Node 25 or any other non-LTS version
2. try to run Node sampling. I'm using Astro

When you start the server, it'll crash.

Expected Result

The server should start

Actual Result

Crashes with

12:52:10 [ERROR] Error: Cannot find module './sentry_cpu_profiler-win32-x64-141.node'       
Require stack:
- C:\projects\research\astro\node_modules\@sentry\node-cpu-profiler\lib\index.js
    at Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1475:15)
    at wrapResolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1048:27)
    at defaultResolveImplForCJSLoading (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1072:10)
    at resolveForCJSWithHooks (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1093:12)
    at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1261:25)
    at wrapModuleLoad (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:255:19)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1575:12)
    at require (node:internal/modules/helpers:191:16)
    at importCppBindingsModule (C:\projects\research\astro\node_modules\@sentry\node-cpu-profiler\lib\index.js:186:12)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\projects\research\astro\node_modules\@sentry\node-cpu-profiler\lib\index.js:188:38)

It cannot find 141 (Node 24 LTS), because I had Node 25.

I understand you cannot ship bindings for all node versions, but the error message could be improved.

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[linear-code]

ENG-8332

JS-3250

[getsantry]

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[Mahnoor-Zaffar]

Hey looks like the profiler crashes on non-LTS Node versions, I'll add support for that

[Lms24]

Thanks for reporting! I don't think we'll add binaries for non-LTS versions but you're right, the error for the fallback import happening here:

https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-javascript-profiling-node-binaries/blob/9ff52e0802a29ea70bffdf551f533f9de3cae558/src/index.ts#L185

should be improved. I'll open a PR for that.

That being said, you should already see this console log:

[Profiling] Bindings not loaded, ignoring call to startProfiling.

[Lms24]

Opened getsentry/sentry-javascript-profiling-node-binaries#39