diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/jsinspector-modern/tracing/PerformanceTracer.cpp b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/jsinspector-modern/tracing/PerformanceTracer.cpp
index 5691ee3ca90..a241f53737b 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/jsinspector-modern/tracing/PerformanceTracer.cpp
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/jsinspector-modern/tracing/PerformanceTracer.cpp
@@ -67,6 +67,21 @@ bool PerformanceTracer::stopTracing() {
     return false;
   }
 
+  // This is synthetic Trace Event, which should not be represented on a
+  // timeline. CDT is not using Profile or ProfileChunk events for determining
+  // trace timeline window, this is why trace that only contains JavaScript
+  // samples will be displayed as empty. We use this event to avoid that.
+  // This could happen for non-bridgeless apps, where Performance interface is
+  // not supported and no spec-compliant Event Loop implementation.
+  buffer_.push_back(TraceEvent{
+      .name = "ReactNative-TracingStopped",
+      .cat = "disabled-by-default-devtools.timeline",
+      .ph = 'I',
+      .ts = getUnixTimestampOfNow(),
+      .pid = processId_,
+      .tid = oscompat::getCurrentThreadId(),
+  });
+
   performanceMeasureCount_ = 0;
   profileCount_ = 0;
   tracing_ = false;
@@ -212,6 +227,20 @@ void PerformanceTracer::reportThread(uint64_t id, const std::string& name) {
       .tid = id,
       .args = folly::dynamic::object("name", name),
   });
+
+  // This is synthetic Trace Event, which should not be represented on a
+  // timeline. CDT will filter out threads that only have JavaScript samples and
+  // no timeline events or user timings. We use this event to avoid that.
+  // This could happen for non-bridgeless apps, where Performance interface is
+  // not supported and no spec-compliant Event Loop implementation.
+  buffer_.push_back(TraceEvent{
+      .name = "ReactNative-ThreadRegistered",
+      .cat = "disabled-by-default-devtools.timeline",
+      .ph = 'I',
+      .ts = 0,
+      .pid = processId_,
+      .tid = id,
+  });
 }
 
 uint16_t PerformanceTracer::reportRuntimeProfile(