Monitor maximum memory consumption in Node.js process

I'm looking for a cross-platform way to reliably monitor maximum memory consumption in Node.js process, regardless of whether there are leaks or not.

The processes in my case are both real applications and synthetic tests.

I would expect it to work like

process.on('exit', () => {
  console.log('Max memory consumption: ' + ...);
});

It was possible to trace memory consumption somehow with node --trace_gc ..., but this resulted in output that is hard to read (and probably hard to analyze programmatically). Also, GC didn't occur when a script ended too fast, even if RAM usage was substantial.

From what I have seen on the subject, usually memwatch is suggested for that, like:

require('memwatch-next').on('stats', stats => {
  console.log('Max memory consumption: ' + stats.max);
});

But in my case it triggered only when GC already happened or didn't trigger at all, so it was useless for determining RAM consumption peaks.

I would prefer to avoid GUI tools like node-inspector if possible.

Can this maximum memory consumption be reliably retrieved as a number from the application itself or CLI alone, cross-platform?