diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 6692d736..1ac289fb 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
     "build": "rimraf ./dist && tsc --project tsconfig.build.json",
     "start": "node dist/src/index.js",
     "start-ts": "ts-node ./src/index.ts",
+    "start:debug-server": "node dist/util/debug-server.js",
     "test": "jest --runInBand",
     "test:brc-20": "npm run test -- ./tests/brc-20/",
     "test:api": "npm run test -- ./tests/api/",
diff --git a/util/debug-server.ts b/util/debug-server.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1c2026ef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/util/debug-server.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+/**
+ * Ordhook Debug Server
+ * ---
+ *
+ * This file provides a quick way to start an Ordhook event server that only saves received payloads
+ * to local text files instead of attempting to process them into the Ordinals API database.
+ *
+ * You can use this tool to debug an Ordhook payload that is not being processed correctly into the
+ * API.
+ */
+import {
+  ChainhookEventObserver,
+  ChainhookNodeOptions,
+  Payload,
+  ServerOptions,
+} from '@hirosystems/chainhook-client';
+import { ENV } from '../src/env';
+import { ORDHOOK_BASE_PATH } from '../src/ordhook/server';
+import { logger } from '@hirosystems/api-toolkit';
+import * as fs from 'fs';
+import * as path from 'path';
+
+const serverOpts: ServerOptions = {
+  hostname: ENV.API_HOST,
+  port: ENV.EVENT_PORT,
+  auth_token: ENV.CHAINHOOK_NODE_AUTH_TOKEN,
+  external_base_url: `http://${ENV.EXTERNAL_HOSTNAME}`,
+  wait_for_chainhook_node: false,
+  validate_chainhook_payloads: false,
+  body_limit: ENV.EVENT_SERVER_BODY_LIMIT,
+  node_type: 'ordhook',
+};
+const ordhookOpts: ChainhookNodeOptions = {
+  base_url: ORDHOOK_BASE_PATH,
+};
+const dirPath = path.join(__dirname, '../../tmp/debug-server/');
+fs.mkdirSync(dirPath, { recursive: true });
+logger.info(`DebugServer saving outputs to ${dirPath}`);
+
+const server = new ChainhookEventObserver(serverOpts, ordhookOpts);
+server
+  .start([], async (uuid: string, payload: Payload) => {
+    logger.info(`DebugServer received payload from predicate ${uuid}`);
+    const filePath = path.join(dirPath, `${new Date().getTime()}.txt`);
+    fs.writeFileSync(filePath, JSON.stringify(payload, null, 2));
+    return Promise.resolve();
+  })
+  .catch(err => logger.error(err));