diff --git a/src/node_options.cc b/src/node_options.cc
index c1cbb59e291044..8027ee677c1e12 100644
--- a/src/node_options.cc
+++ b/src/node_options.cc
@@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ EnvironmentOptionsParser::EnvironmentOptionsParser() {
   AddOption("--prof-process",
             "process V8 profiler output generated using --prof",
             &EnvironmentOptions::prof_process);
+  // Options after --prof-process are passed through to the prof processor.
+  AddAlias("--prof-process", { "--prof-process", "--" });
   AddOption("--redirect-warnings",
             "write warnings to file instead of stderr",
             &EnvironmentOptions::redirect_warnings,
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-tick-processor-arguments.js b/test/parallel/test-tick-processor-arguments.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..921b851cc297b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/parallel/test-tick-processor-arguments.js
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+'use strict';
+require('../common');
+const tmpdir = require('../common/tmpdir');
+const fs = require('fs');
+const assert = require('assert');
+const { spawnSync } = require('child_process');
+
+tmpdir.refresh();
+process.chdir(tmpdir.path);
+
+// Generate log file.
+spawnSync(process.execPath, [ '--prof', '-p', '42' ]);
+
+const logfile = fs.readdirSync('.').filter((name) => name.endsWith('.log'))[0];
+assert(logfile);
+
+// Make sure that the --preprocess argument is passed through correctly.
+const { stdout } = spawnSync(
+  process.execPath,
+  [ '--prof-process', '--preprocess', logfile ],
+  { encoding: 'utf8' });
+
+// Make sure that the result is valid JSON.
+JSON.parse(stdout);