diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 650352690..f79f1e5b4 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -74,6 +74,11 @@ option(NS3_MONOLIB
 )
 option(NS3_MPI "Build with MPI support" OFF)
 option(NS3_NATIVE_OPTIMIZATIONS "Build with -march=native -mtune=native" OFF)
+option(
+  NS3_NINJA_TRACING
+  "Use ninjatracing to convert Ninja's build log to the about://tracing format"
+  OFF
+)
 set(NS3_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "" CACHE STRING "Directory to store built artifacts")
 option(NS3_PRECOMPILE_HEADERS
        "Precompile module headers to speed up compilation" ON
diff --git a/build-support/macros-and-definitions.cmake b/build-support/macros-and-definitions.cmake
index 54eded8a0..f62125ef0 100644
--- a/build-support/macros-and-definitions.cmake
+++ b/build-support/macros-and-definitions.cmake
@@ -876,6 +876,37 @@ macro(process_options)
     endif()
   endif()
 
+  if(${NS3_NINJA_TRACING})
+    if(${CMAKE_GENERATOR} STREQUAL Ninja)
+      include(ExternalProject)
+      ExternalProject_Add(
+        NinjaTracing
+        GIT_REPOSITORY "https://github.com/nico/ninjatracing.git"
+        GIT_TAG "f9d21e973cfdeafa913b83a927fef56258f70b9a"
+        CONFIGURE_COMMAND ""
+        BUILD_COMMAND ""
+        INSTALL_COMMAND ""
+      )
+      ExternalProject_Get_Property(NinjaTracing SOURCE_DIR)
+      set(embed_time_trace)
+      if(${NS3_CLANG_TIMETRACE} AND ${CLANG})
+        set(embed_time_trace --embed-time-trace)
+      endif()
+      add_custom_target(
+        ninjaTrace
+        COMMAND
+          ${Python3_EXECUTABLE} ${SOURCE_DIR}/ninjatracing -a
+          ${embed_time_trace} ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/.ninja_log >
+          ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/ninja_performance_trace.json
+        DEPENDS NinjaTracing
+      )
+      unset(embed_time_trace)
+      unset(SOURCE_DIR)
+    else()
+      message(FATAL_ERROR "Ninjatracing requires the Ninja generator")
+    endif()
+  endif()
+
   # Disable the below warning from bindings built in debug mode with clang++:
   # "expression with side effects will be evaluated despite being used as an
   # operand to 'typeid'"
diff --git a/ns3 b/ns3
index 925f2e6c1..a11662a6d 100755
--- a/ns3
+++ b/ns3
@@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ def parse_args(argv):
         ("logs", "the logs regardless of the compile mode"),
         ("monolib", "a single shared library with all ns-3 modules"),
         ("mpi", "the MPI support for distributed simulation"),
+        ("ninja-tracing", "the conversion of the Ninja generator log file into about://tracing format"),
         ("precompiled-headers", "precompiled headers"),
         ("python-bindings", "python bindings"),
         ("tests", "the ns-3 tests"),
@@ -583,6 +584,7 @@ def configure_cmake(cmake, args, current_cmake_cache_folder, current_cmake_gener
                ("LOG", "logs"),
                ("MONOLIB", "monolib"),
                ("MPI", "mpi"),
+               ("NINJA_TRACING", "ninja_tracing"),
                ("PRECOMPILE_HEADERS", "precompiled_headers"),
                ("PYTHON_BINDINGS", "python_bindings"),
                ("SANITIZE", "sanitizers"),
@@ -979,6 +981,7 @@ def build_step(args,
                                   "sphinx",
                                   "manual",
                                   "models",
+                                  "ninjaTrace",
                                   "timeTraceReport",
                                   "tutorial",
                                   "contributing",