diff --git a/tests/node_compat/config.jsonc b/tests/node_compat/config.jsonc
index d5b167d7041942..fb4a4256cb74e4 100644
--- a/tests/node_compat/config.jsonc
+++ b/tests/node_compat/config.jsonc
@@ -3129,6 +3129,10 @@
       "ignore": true,
       "reason": "Deno's node:trace_events polyfill is a stub (createTracing returns an object without .enable/.disable, getEnabledCategories returns \"\" instead of undefined). These tests were silently skipping via try/catch(require('trace_events')) until that lookup was fixed."
     },
+    "parallel/test-trace-events-bootstrap.js": {
+      "ignore": true,
+      "reason": "Deno does not implement Node.js --trace-event-categories CLI flag, so node_trace.${rotation}.log is never emitted."
+    },
     "parallel/test-trace-events-dynamic-enable-workers-disabled.js": {},
     // TODO(bartlomieju): disabled during work on `node:inspector`, this test didn't actualy run before
     // "parallel/test-trace-events-dynamic-enable.js": {},