diff --git a/changelog/snippets/other.7275.md b/changelog/snippets/other.7275.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d21fc29806
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/snippets/other.7275.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+- Add a function to track operations on a specific table in a new file `/lua/shared/DebugUtils.lua` (#7275).
diff --git a/lua/globalInit.lua b/lua/globalInit.lua
index 04360656f6..a368f2b550 100644
--- a/lua/globalInit.lua
+++ b/lua/globalInit.lua
@@ -11,6 +11,29 @@
 -- Set up global diskwatch table (you can add callbacks to it to be notified of disk changes)
 __diskwatch = {}
 
+local GetTime = GetSystemTimeSecondsOnlyForProfileUse or GetSystemTimeSeconds
+local type = type
+local rawget = rawget
+local oldsetmetatable = _G.setmetatable
+local newSetmetatable = function(t, mt)
+    if type(t) == 'table' then
+        local tracker = rawget(t, '__tracker')
+        if tracker then
+            table.insert(tracker.assignments,
+                string.format('[%0f] Assign "<metatable>" as %s\n from %s'
+                , GetTime()
+                , repr(mt)
+                , debug.traceback()
+            ))
+            oldsetmetatable(tracker.target, mt)
+            return t
+        end
+    end
+    return oldsetmetatable(t, mt)
+end
+setmetatable = newSetmetatable
+_setmetatable = oldsetmetatable
+
 -- Set up custom Lua weirdness
 doscript '/lua/system/config.lua'
 
diff --git a/lua/shared/DebugUtils.lua b/lua/shared/DebugUtils.lua
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d723336f5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lua/shared/DebugUtils.lua
@@ -0,0 +1,125 @@
+--- Resolve timer function to the sim or UI version
+local GetTime = GetSystemTimeSecondsOnlyForProfileUse or GetSystemTimeSeconds
+
+local function DebugLog(...)
+    LOG('DebugUtils - ', unpack(arg))
+end
+
+local function mergeMetatables(mt1, mt2)
+    mt1.__index = mt2.__index
+end
+
+local once
+---@type metatable
+local trackerMeta
+trackerMeta = {
+    __index = function(t, k)
+        ---@type proxyTable.Tracker
+        local tracker = t.__tracker
+        local ret = tracker.target[k]
+        table.insert(tracker.accesses, string.format('[%0f] Access "%s" and ret "%s" from %s'
+        , GetTime()
+        , tostring(k), tostring(ret), debug.traceback()
+        ))
+        -- if tracker == once or not once then
+        --     if not once then
+        --         once = tracker
+        --     end
+        --     DebugLog(string.format('[%0f] Access "%s" and ret "%s" from %s'
+        --         , GetTime()
+        --         , tostring(k), tostring(ret), debug.traceback()
+        --     ))
+        -- end
+        return ret
+    end,
+    __newindex = function(t, k, v)
+        ---@type proxyTable.Tracker
+        local tracker = t.__tracker
+        table.insert(tracker.assignments,
+            string.format('[%0f] Assign "%s" as "%s" from %s'
+            , GetTime()
+            , tostring(k)
+            , tostring(v)
+            , debug.traceback()
+        ))
+        -- if tracker == once or not once then
+        --     if not once then
+        --         once = tracker
+        --     end
+        --     DebugLog(string.format('[%0f] %s: Assign "%s" as "%s" from %s'
+        --         , GetTime()
+        --         , tostring(t)
+        --         , tostring(k)
+        --         , tostring(v)
+        --         , debug.traceback()
+        --     ))
+        --     -- DebugLog(repr(t))
+        --     -- DebugLog('tracker', tracker)
+        --     -- DebugLog('tracker.target', tracker.target)
+        --     -- DebugLog('tracker.target[k]', tracker.target[k])
+        -- end
+        if type(v) == 'userdata' then
+            -- user data needs to be set to tracker because 
+            -- cscriptobject code rawgets the _c_object
+            rawset(t, k, v)
+        end
+        tracker.target[k] = v
+    end,
+    __call = function (t, ...)
+        local target = t.__tracker.target
+        if iscallable(target) then
+            local ret = t.__tracker.target(t, unpack(arg))
+            if type(ret) == "table" then
+                ReplaceTableWithTrackedTable(ret)
+            end
+            DebugLog(string.format('[%0f] %s: Call with args from %s'
+                , GetTime()
+                , tostring(t)
+                , repr(arg)
+                , debug.traceback()
+            ))
+            return ret
+        else
+            error(tostring(t) .. 'tried to call table ' .. tostring(t.__tracker.target))
+        end
+    end
+}
+
+local mtCache = {} ---@type table<table, metatable>
+
+function ReplaceTableWithTrackedTable(t)
+    local t2 = {}
+    for k, v in t do
+        t2[k] = v
+        if type(v) ~= 'userdata' then --engine rawgets
+            t[k] = nil
+        end
+    end
+    ---@class proxyTable.Tracker
+    t.__tracker = {
+        accesses = {},
+        assignments = {},
+        target = t2,
+    }
+    t.__ProxyPrintAllData = function(self)
+        local tracker = self.__tracker
+        _ALERT(string.format('==== __ProxyPrintAllData ====\nTARGET: %s\nACCESSES: %s\nASSIGNMENTS: %s'
+            , repr(tracker.target, {meta = true, depth = 2})
+            , repr(tracker.accesses)
+            , repr(tracker.assignments)
+        ))
+    end
+    local mt = getmetatable(t)
+    local newMt = mtCache[mt]
+    if not newMt then
+        newMt = table.copy(mt)
+        newMt.__index = trackerMeta.__index
+        newMt.__newindex = trackerMeta.__newindex
+        newMt.__call = trackerMeta.__call
+        mtCache[mt] = newMt
+    end
+    _setmetatable(t, newMt)
+    _setmetatable(t2, mt)
+    -- DebugLog('Replaced table ' .. tostring(t) .. ' with target ' .. tostring(t2))
+    return t
+end