diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/build.gradle.kts b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/build.gradle.kts
index 70233798f95..a5ecbf6111f 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/build.gradle.kts
@@ -512,6 +512,7 @@ android {
     buildConfigField("boolean", "IS_INTERNAL_BUILD", "false")
     buildConfigField("int", "EXOPACKAGE_FLAGS", "0")
     buildConfigField("boolean", "UNSTABLE_ENABLE_FUSEBOX_RELEASE", "false")
+    buildConfigField("boolean", "ENABLE_PERFETTO", "false")
 
     resValue("integer", "react_native_dev_server_port", reactNativeDevServerPort())
 
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/ReactInstanceManager.java b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/ReactInstanceManager.java
index 1ba517b3075..ed7f80bbea4 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/ReactInstanceManager.java
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/ReactInstanceManager.java
@@ -1521,7 +1521,8 @@ public class ReactInstanceManager {
     if (mBridgeIdleDebugListener != null) {
       catalystInstance.addBridgeIdleDebugListener(mBridgeIdleDebugListener);
     }
-    if (Systrace.isTracing(TRACE_TAG_REACT_APPS | TRACE_TAG_REACT_JS_VM_CALLS)) {
+    if (BuildConfig.ENABLE_PERFETTO
+        || Systrace.isTracing(TRACE_TAG_REACT_APPS | TRACE_TAG_REACT_JS_VM_CALLS)) {
       catalystInstance.setGlobalVariable("__RCTProfileIsProfiling", "true");
     }
 
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/runtime/ReactInstance.java b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/runtime/ReactInstance.java
index 5c523cbfb46..53cd2ee20c8 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/runtime/ReactInstance.java
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/runtime/ReactInstance.java
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ import com.facebook.infer.annotation.ThreadConfined;
 import com.facebook.infer.annotation.ThreadSafe;
 import com.facebook.jni.HybridData;
 import com.facebook.proguard.annotations.DoNotStrip;
+import com.facebook.react.BuildConfig;
 import com.facebook.react.DebugCorePackage;
 import com.facebook.react.ReactPackage;
 import com.facebook.react.ViewManagerOnDemandReactPackage;
@@ -144,7 +145,9 @@ final class ReactInstance {
     BindingsInstaller bindingsInstaller = delegate.getBindingsInstaller();
     // Notify JS if profiling is enabled
     boolean isProfiling =
-        Systrace.isTracing(Systrace.TRACE_TAG_REACT_APPS | Systrace.TRACE_TAG_REACT_JS_VM_CALLS);
+        BuildConfig.ENABLE_PERFETTO
+            || Systrace.isTracing(
+                Systrace.TRACE_TAG_REACT_APPS | Systrace.TRACE_TAG_REACT_JS_VM_CALLS);
 
     mHybridData =
         initHybrid(