diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 4d6e3fdcb..c9e57a63f 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
 [submodule "3rd/jemalloc"]
 	path = 3rd/jemalloc
 	url = https://github.com/jemalloc/jemalloc.git
+[submodule "3rd/lua-snapshot"]
+	path = 3rd/lua-snapshot
+	url = https://github.com/cloudwu/lua-snapshot.git
diff --git a/3rd/lua-snapshot b/3rd/lua-snapshot
new file mode 160000
index 000000000..5fdc88aaa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/3rd/lua-snapshot
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 5fdc88aaa5335b3e7137f1ed01d76517f3d129c9
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 4f8b17a78..81e46de69 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ LUA_CLIB_SKYNET = \
   lua-mysqlaux.c \
   lua-debugchannel.c \
   lua-datasheet.c \
+  lua-snapshot.c \
   \
 
 SKYNET_SRC = skynet_main.c skynet_handle.c skynet_module.c skynet_mq.c \
diff --git a/lualib/skynet/debug.lua b/lualib/skynet/debug.lua
index 802548ee7..6838f3204 100644
--- a/lualib/skynet/debug.lua
+++ b/lualib/skynet/debug.lua
@@ -88,6 +88,27 @@ local function init(skynet, export)
 			skynet.ret()
 		end
 
+		local old_snapshot
+		function dbgcmd.SNAPSHOT()
+			local snapshot = require "snapshot"
+			local construct_indentation = (require "skynet.snapshot_utils").construct_indentation
+			collectgarbage "collect"
+			local new_snapshot = snapshot()
+			if not old_snapshot then
+				old_snapshot = new_snapshot
+				return skynet.ret(skynet.pack({}))
+			end
+			local diff = {}
+			for k,v in pairs(new_snapshot) do
+				if not old_snapshot[k] then
+					diff[k] = v
+				end
+			end
+			old_snapshot = new_snapshot
+			local ret = construct_indentation(diff)
+			skynet.ret(skynet.pack(ret))
+		end
+
 		return dbgcmd
 	end -- function init_dbgcmd