how to monitor the network on node.js similar to chrome/firefox developer tools?

When developing client side javascript applications, the developer network panel is invaluable for debugging network issues:

How does a developer creating a NodeJS application monitor the network traffic from the nodejs application to a http/https server? For example how to debug the following network traffic?

var http = require('http');
var req = http.request ...
req.write ...
req.send()

My code is making a call to a third party https server, so I am unable to use wireshark or similar packet sniffing tools.

For more information, the problem I am trying to investigate is here.