diff --git a/sentry/api/sentry.api b/sentry/api/sentry.api
index 2dec42bf6ec..2b74d2a47d4 100644
--- a/sentry/api/sentry.api
+++ b/sentry/api/sentry.api
@@ -711,6 +711,7 @@ public final class io/sentry/HubScopesWrapper : io/sentry/IHub {
 	public fun getParentScopes ()Lio/sentry/IScopes;
 	public fun getRateLimiter ()Lio/sentry/transport/RateLimiter;
 	public fun getScope ()Lio/sentry/IScope;
+	public fun getScopes ()Lio/sentry/IScopes;
 	public fun getSpan ()Lio/sentry/ISpan;
 	public fun getTraceparent ()Lio/sentry/SentryTraceHeader;
 	public fun getTransaction ()Lio/sentry/ITransaction;
@@ -6921,6 +6922,11 @@ public final class io/sentry/util/SampleRateUtils {
 	public static fun isValidTracesSampleRate (Ljava/lang/Double;Z)Z
 }
 
+public final class io/sentry/util/ScopesUtil {
+	public fun <init> ()V
+	public static fun printScopesChain (Lio/sentry/IScopes;)V
+}
+
 public final class io/sentry/util/SentryRandom {
 	public fun <init> ()V
 	public static fun current ()Lio/sentry/util/Random;
diff --git a/sentry/src/main/java/io/sentry/HubScopesWrapper.java b/sentry/src/main/java/io/sentry/HubScopesWrapper.java
index b873d6219fb..7de59538c52 100644
--- a/sentry/src/main/java/io/sentry/HubScopesWrapper.java
+++ b/sentry/src/main/java/io/sentry/HubScopesWrapper.java
@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ public HubScopesWrapper(final @NotNull IScopes scopes) {
     this.scopes = scopes;
   }
 
+  public @NotNull IScopes getScopes() {
+    return scopes;
+  }
+
   @Override
   public boolean isEnabled() {
     return scopes.isEnabled();
diff --git a/sentry/src/main/java/io/sentry/util/ScopesUtil.java b/sentry/src/main/java/io/sentry/util/ScopesUtil.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0b1051a92d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sentry/src/main/java/io/sentry/util/ScopesUtil.java
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+package io.sentry.util;
+
+import io.sentry.IScopes;
+import io.sentry.Scopes;
+import io.sentry.ScopesAdapter;
+import io.sentry.Sentry;
+import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;
+
+/**
+ * A util for printing the scopes chain from passed in scopes all the way up to its initial
+ * ancestor.
+ *
+ * <p>It walks up the parents of each scopes instance until it reaches a parent of null. The scopes
+ * without a parent are the ones created in Sentry.init.
+ */
+public final class ScopesUtil {
+
+  public static void printScopesChain(final @Nullable IScopes scopes) {
+    System.out.println("==========================================");
+    System.out.println("=============== v Scopes v ===============");
+    System.out.println("==========================================");
+
+    printScopesChainInternal(scopes);
+
+    System.out.println("==========================================");
+    System.out.println("=============== ^ Scopes ^ ===============");
+    System.out.println("==========================================");
+  }
+
+  @SuppressWarnings({"ObjectToString", "deprecation"})
+  private static void printScopesChainInternal(final @Nullable IScopes someScopes) {
+    if (someScopes != null) {
+      if (someScopes instanceof Scopes) {
+        Scopes scopes = (Scopes) someScopes;
+        String info =
+            String.format(
+                "%-25s {g=%-25s, i=%-25s, c=%-25s} [%s]",
+                scopes,
+                scopes.getGlobalScope(),
+                scopes.getIsolationScope(),
+                scopes.getScope(),
+                scopes.getCreator());
+        System.out.println(info);
+        printScopesChainInternal(someScopes.getParentScopes());
+      } else if (someScopes instanceof ScopesAdapter
+          || someScopes instanceof io.sentry.HubAdapter) {
+        printScopesChainInternal(Sentry.getCurrentScopes());
+      } else if (someScopes instanceof io.sentry.HubScopesWrapper) {
+        io.sentry.HubScopesWrapper wrapper = (io.sentry.HubScopesWrapper) someScopes;
+        printScopesChainInternal(wrapper.getScopes());
+      } else {
+        System.out.println("Hit unhandled Scopes class" + someScopes.getClass());
+      }
+    } else {
+      System.out.println("-");
+    }
+  }
+}