Not able to find node using nodeid

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Hi,
I am trying to debug some performance issues with my nodered application and I have enabled "metrics" logging in the settings.js file. I am able to now see the [metric] logs in console logs. However, I am not able to match a log line with a particular node in my flows.

For example, I have this log line:
20 Jan 17:52:31 - [metric] {"level":99,"nodeid":"cf30fe0c.d247a","event":"node.debug.receive","msgid":"62fba2b5.3b5adc","timestamp":1548028351475}

I am not able to find the node corresponding to nodeid "cf30fe0c.d247a" in my flows. I searched for this ID in the UI, using Ctrl-F and I also searched the "flows.json" file using a text editor.
I can sometimes guess which node this message is for, and when I look at the node in the UI and in flows.json, that node has a different nodeid.

How can I find the nodes for such nodeids?

Note: I noticed that this behavior is inconsistent. That is, there are some nodeids in the logs that I am able to find using "Ctrl-F" and in the flows.json file.

Regards,
Kartik N

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Do you have any subflows? It could be the id of a debug node inside a subflow as they all get assigned unique ids when the subflow instance is started. If that is the case, we need to make that more obvious in the metric event.

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Ah ok! Yes, I have subflows and these nodes could be within the subflows. It will really help if there is a way to tie the nodeid from "metrics" to a nodeid in the subflow.

Is there any way I can map the nodeid in the log to a node in the flow?

Thank you!!
Kartik