diff --git a/CHANGELOG_PENDING.md b/CHANGELOG_PENDING.md
index 61c27b2f9..87b69c2a1 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG_PENDING.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG_PENDING.md
@@ -8,3 +8,6 @@
 
 - [sdk/{go,python,nodejs}] - Rehydrate provider resources in `Construct`.
   [#7624](https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/pull/7624)
+
+- [sdk/nodejs] - Fix `pulumi up --logflow` causing Node multi-lang components to hang
+  [#7644](https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/pull/)
diff --git a/sdk/nodejs/provider/internals.ts b/sdk/nodejs/provider/internals.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d35063781
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sdk/nodejs/provider/internals.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+// Copyright 2016-2021, Pulumi Corporation.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+// Functionality exported for unit testing.
+
+// The parsing here is approximate for the moment.
+//
+// When Pulumi CLI decides how to structure command line arguments for
+// plugins that will be parsed with this function, it uses the
+// following code:
+//
+// https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/blob/master/sdk/go/common/resource/plugin/plugin.go#L281
+//
+// The code can prepend `--logtostderr` and verbosity e.g. `-v=9`
+// arguments. We ignore these for the moment.
+export function parseArgs(args: string[]): ({engineAddress: string} | undefined) {
+    const cleanArgs = [];
+
+    for (let i = 0; i < args.length; i++) {
+        const v = args[i];
+        if (v === "--logtostderr") {
+            continue;
+        }
+        if (v.startsWith("-v=")) {
+            continue;
+        }
+        if (v === "--tracing") {
+            i += 1;
+            continue;
+        }
+        cleanArgs.push(v);
+    }
+
+    if (cleanArgs.length === 0) {
+        return undefined;
+    }
+
+    return {engineAddress: cleanArgs[0]};
+}
diff --git a/sdk/nodejs/provider/server.ts b/sdk/nodejs/provider/server.ts
index 800611bad..66c4af11c 100644
--- a/sdk/nodejs/provider/server.ts
+++ b/sdk/nodejs/provider/server.ts
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import { Inputs, Output, output } from "../output";
 import * as resource from "../resource";
 import * as runtime from "../runtime";
 import { version } from "../version";
+import { parseArgs } from "./internals";
 
 const requireFromString = require("require-from-string");
 const anyproto = require("google-protobuf/google/protobuf/any_pb.js");
@@ -570,14 +571,16 @@ export async function main(provider: Provider, args: string[]) {
         }
     });
 
+    const parsedArgs = parseArgs(args);
+
     // The program requires a single argument: the address of the RPC endpoint for the engine.  It
     // optionally also takes a second argument, a reference back to the engine, but this may be missing.
-    if (args.length === 0) {
+    if (parsedArgs === undefined) {
         console.error("fatal: Missing <engine> address");
         process.exit(-1);
         return;
     }
-    const engineAddr: string = args[0];
+    const engineAddr: string = parsedArgs.engineAddress;
 
     // Finally connect up the gRPC client/server and listen for incoming requests.
     const server = new grpc.Server({
diff --git a/sdk/nodejs/tests/provider.spec.ts b/sdk/nodejs/tests/provider.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..110cd2bc5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sdk/nodejs/tests/provider.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+// Copyright 2016-2021, Pulumi Corporation.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+import * as assert from "assert";
+import { asyncTest } from "./util";
+
+import * as internals from "../provider/internals";
+
+describe("provider", () => {
+    it("parses arguments generated by --logflow", asyncTest(async () => {
+        const parsedArgs = internals.parseArgs(["--logtostderr", "-v=9", "--tracing", "127.0.0.1:6007", "127.0.0.1:12345"]);
+        if (parsedArgs !== undefined) {
+            assert.strictEqual("127.0.0.1:12345", parsedArgs.engineAddress);
+        } else {
+            assert.fail("failed to parse");
+        }
+    }));
+});
diff --git a/sdk/nodejs/tsconfig.json b/sdk/nodejs/tsconfig.json
index 4df9cdd6d..33369f709 100644
--- a/sdk/nodejs/tsconfig.json
+++ b/sdk/nodejs/tsconfig.json
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 
         "provider/index.ts",
         "provider/provider.ts",
+        "provider/internals.ts",
         "provider/server.ts",
 
         "runtime/index.ts",
@@ -84,6 +85,7 @@
         "tests/options.spec.ts",
         "tests/output.spec.ts",
         "tests/resource.spec.ts",
+        "tests/provider.spec.ts",
         "tests/testmode.spec.ts",
         "tests/unwrap.spec.ts",
         "tests/util.ts",