diff --git a/packages/flutter_tools/lib/src/base/process_manager.dart b/packages/flutter_tools/lib/src/base/process_manager.dart
index 0cfc1f5780e..9a819c3710d 100644
--- a/packages/flutter_tools/lib/src/base/process_manager.dart
+++ b/packages/flutter_tools/lib/src/base/process_manager.dart
@@ -6,10 +6,19 @@ import 'dart:async';
 import 'dart:convert';
 import 'dart:io';
 
+import 'package:archive/archive.dart';
+import 'package:intl/intl.dart';
+import 'package:path/path.dart' as path;
+
 import 'context.dart';
+import 'process.dart';
 
 ProcessManager get processManager => context[ProcessManager];
 
+/// A class that manages the creation of operating system processes. This
+/// provides a lightweight wrapper around the underlying [Process] static
+/// methods to allow the implementation of these methods to be mocked out or
+/// decorated for testing or debugging purposes.
 class ProcessManager {
   Future<Process> start(
       String executable,
@@ -64,3 +73,409 @@ class ProcessManager {
     return Process.killPid(pid, signal);
   }
 }
+
+/// A [ProcessManager] implementation that decorates the standard behavior by
+/// recording all process invocation activity (including the stdout and stderr
+/// of the associated processes) and serializing that recording to a ZIP file
+/// when the Flutter tools process exits.
+class RecordingProcessManager implements ProcessManager {
+  static const String kDefaultRecordTo = 'recording.zip';
+  static const List<String> _kSkippableExecutables = const <String>[
+    'env',
+    'xcrun',
+  ];
+
+  final FileSystemEntity _recordTo;
+  final ProcessManager _delegate = new ProcessManager();
+  final Directory _tmpDir = Directory.systemTemp.createTempSync('flutter_tools_');
+  final List<Map<String, dynamic>> _manifest = <Map<String, dynamic>>[];
+  final Map<int, Future<int>> _runningProcesses = <int, Future<int>>{};
+
+  /// Constructs a new `RecordingProcessManager` that will record all process
+  /// invocations and serialize them to the a ZIP file at the specified
+  /// [recordTo] location.
+  ///
+  /// If [recordTo] is a directory, a ZIP file named
+  /// [kDefaultRecordTo](`recording.zip`) will be created in the specified
+  /// directory.
+  ///
+  /// If [recordTo] is a file (or doesn't exist), it is taken to be the name
+  /// of the ZIP file that will be created, and the containing folder will be
+  /// created as needed.
+  RecordingProcessManager({FileSystemEntity recordTo})
+      : _recordTo = recordTo ?? Directory.current {
+    addShutdownHook(_onShutdown);
+  }
+
+  @override
+  Future<Process> start(
+      String executable,
+      List<String> arguments,
+      {String workingDirectory,
+       Map<String, String> environment,
+       ProcessStartMode mode: ProcessStartMode.NORMAL}) async {
+    Process process = await _delegate.start(
+      executable,
+      arguments,
+      workingDirectory: workingDirectory,
+      environment: environment,
+      mode: mode,
+    );
+
+    Map<String, dynamic> manifestEntry = _createManifestEntry(
+      pid: process.pid,
+      executable: executable,
+      arguments: arguments,
+      workingDirectory: workingDirectory,
+      environment: environment,
+      mode: mode,
+    );
+    _manifest.add(manifestEntry);
+
+    _RecordingProcess result = new _RecordingProcess(
+      manager: this,
+      basename: _getBasename(process.pid, executable, arguments),
+      delegate: process,
+    );
+    await result.startRecording();
+    _runningProcesses[process.pid] = result.exitCode.then((int exitCode) {
+      _runningProcesses.remove(process.pid);
+      manifestEntry['exitCode'] = exitCode;
+    });
+
+    return result;
+  }
+
+  @override
+  Future<ProcessResult> run(
+      String executable,
+      List<String> arguments,
+      {String workingDirectory,
+       Map<String, String> environment,
+       Encoding stdoutEncoding: SYSTEM_ENCODING,
+       Encoding stderrEncoding: SYSTEM_ENCODING}) async {
+    ProcessResult result = await _delegate.run(
+      executable,
+      arguments,
+      workingDirectory: workingDirectory,
+      environment: environment,
+      stdoutEncoding: stdoutEncoding,
+      stderrEncoding: stderrEncoding,
+    );
+
+    _manifest.add(_createManifestEntry(
+      pid: result.pid,
+      executable: executable,
+      arguments: arguments,
+      workingDirectory: workingDirectory,
+      environment: environment,
+      stdoutEncoding: stdoutEncoding,
+      stderrEncoding: stderrEncoding,
+      exitCode: result.exitCode,
+    ));
+
+    String basename = _getBasename(result.pid, executable, arguments);
+    await _recordData(result.stdout, stdoutEncoding, '$basename.stdout');
+    await _recordData(result.stderr, stderrEncoding, '$basename.stderr');
+
+    return result;
+  }
+
+  Future<Null> _recordData(dynamic data, Encoding encoding, String basename) async {
+    String path = '${_tmpDir.path}/$basename';
+    File file = await new File(path).create();
+    RandomAccessFile recording = await file.open(mode: FileMode.WRITE);
+    try {
+      if (encoding == null)
+        await recording.writeFrom(data);
+      else
+        await recording.writeString(data, encoding: encoding);
+      await recording.flush();
+    } finally {
+      await recording.close();
+    }
+  }
+
+  @override
+  ProcessResult runSync(
+      String executable,
+      List<String> arguments,
+      {String workingDirectory,
+       Map<String, String> environment,
+       Encoding stdoutEncoding: SYSTEM_ENCODING,
+       Encoding stderrEncoding: SYSTEM_ENCODING}) {
+    ProcessResult result = _delegate.runSync(
+      executable,
+      arguments,
+      workingDirectory: workingDirectory,
+      environment: environment,
+      stdoutEncoding: stdoutEncoding,
+      stderrEncoding: stderrEncoding,
+    );
+
+    _manifest.add(_createManifestEntry(
+      pid: result.pid,
+      executable: executable,
+      arguments: arguments,
+      workingDirectory: workingDirectory,
+      environment: environment,
+      stdoutEncoding: stdoutEncoding,
+      stderrEncoding: stderrEncoding,
+      exitCode: result.exitCode,
+    ));
+
+    String basename = _getBasename(result.pid, executable, arguments);
+    _recordDataSync(result.stdout, stdoutEncoding, '$basename.stdout');
+    _recordDataSync(result.stderr, stderrEncoding, '$basename.stderr');
+
+    return result;
+  }
+
+  void _recordDataSync(dynamic data, Encoding encoding, String basename) {
+    String path = '${_tmpDir.path}/$basename';
+    File file = new File(path)..createSync();
+    RandomAccessFile recording = file.openSync(mode: FileMode.WRITE);
+    try {
+      if (encoding == null)
+        recording.writeFromSync(data);
+      else
+        recording.writeStringSync(data, encoding: encoding);
+      recording.flushSync();
+    } finally {
+      recording.closeSync();
+    }
+  }
+
+  @override
+  bool killPid(int pid, [ProcessSignal signal = ProcessSignal.SIGTERM]) {
+    return _delegate.killPid(pid, signal);
+  }
+
+  /// Creates a JSON-encodable manifest entry representing the specified
+  /// process invocation.
+  Map<String, dynamic> _createManifestEntry({
+      int pid,
+      String executable,
+      List<String> arguments,
+      String workingDirectory,
+      Map<String, String> environment,
+      ProcessStartMode mode,
+      Encoding stdoutEncoding,
+      Encoding stderrEncoding,
+      int exitCode,
+  }) {
+    Map<String, dynamic> entry = <String, dynamic>{};
+    if (pid != null) entry['pid'] = pid;
+    if (executable != null) entry['executable'] = executable;
+    if (arguments != null) entry['arguments'] = arguments;
+    if (workingDirectory != null) entry['workingDirectory'] = workingDirectory;
+    if (environment != null) entry['environment'] = environment;
+    if (mode != null) entry['mode'] = mode.toString();
+    if (stdoutEncoding != null) entry['stdoutEncoding'] = stdoutEncoding.name;
+    if (stderrEncoding != null) entry['stderrEncoding'] = stderrEncoding.name;
+    if (exitCode != null) entry['exitCode'] = exitCode;
+    return entry;
+  }
+
+  /// Returns a human-readable identifier for the specified executable.
+  String _getBasename(int pid, String executable, List<String> arguments) {
+    String index = new NumberFormat('000').format(_manifest.length - 1);
+    String identifier = path.basename(executable);
+    if (_kSkippableExecutables.contains(identifier)
+        && arguments != null
+        && arguments.isNotEmpty) {
+      identifier = path.basename(arguments.first);
+    }
+    return '$index.$identifier.$pid';
+  }
+
+  /// Invoked when the outermost executable process is about to shutdown
+  /// safely. This saves our recording to a ZIP file at the location specified
+  /// in the [new RecordingProcessManager] constructor.
+  Future<Null> _onShutdown() async {
+    await _waitForRunningProcessesToExit();
+    await _writeManifestToDisk();
+    await _saveRecording();
+    await _tmpDir.delete(recursive: true);
+  }
+
+  /// Waits for all running processes to exit, and records their exit codes in
+  /// the process manifest. Any process that doesn't exit in a timely fashion
+  /// will have a `"daemon"` marker added to its manifest and be signalled with
+  /// `SIGTERM`. If such processes *still* don't exit in a timely fashion after
+  /// being signalled, they'll have a `"notResponding"` marker added to their
+  /// manifest.
+  Future<Null> _waitForRunningProcessesToExit() async {
+    await _waitForRunningProcessesToExitWithTimeout(
+      onTimeout: (int pid, Map<String, dynamic> manifestEntry) {
+        manifestEntry['daemon'] = true;
+        Process.killPid(pid);
+      });
+    // Now that we explicitly signalled the processes that timed out asking
+    // them to shutdown, wait one more time for those processes to exit.
+    await _waitForRunningProcessesToExitWithTimeout(
+      onTimeout: (int pid, Map<String, dynamic> manifestEntry) {
+        manifestEntry['notResponding'] = true;
+      });
+  }
+
+  Future<Null> _waitForRunningProcessesToExitWithTimeout({
+    void onTimeout(int pid, Map<String, dynamic> manifestEntry),
+  }) async {
+    await Future.wait(new List<Future<int>>.from(_runningProcesses.values))
+        .timeout(new Duration(milliseconds: 20), onTimeout: () {
+          _runningProcesses.forEach((int pid, Future<int> future) {
+            Map<String, dynamic> manifestEntry = _manifest
+                .firstWhere((Map<String, dynamic> entry) => entry['pid'] == pid);
+            onTimeout(pid, manifestEntry);
+          });
+        });
+  }
+
+  /// Writes our process invocation manifest to disk in our temp folder.
+  Future<Null> _writeManifestToDisk() async {
+    JsonEncoder encoder = new JsonEncoder.withIndent('  ');
+    String encodedManifest = encoder.convert(_manifest);
+    File manifestFile = await new File('${_tmpDir.path}/process-manifest.txt').create();
+    await manifestFile.writeAsString(encodedManifest, flush: true);
+  }
+
+  /// Saves our recording to a ZIP file at the specified location.
+  Future<Null> _saveRecording() async {
+    File zipFile = await _createZipFile();
+    List<int> zipData = await _getRecordingZipBytes();
+    await zipFile.writeAsBytes(zipData);
+  }
+
+  /// Creates our recording ZIP file at the location specified
+  /// in the [new RecordingProcessManager] constructor.
+  Future<File> _createZipFile() async {
+    File zipFile;
+    if (await FileSystemEntity.type(_recordTo.path) == FileSystemEntityType.DIRECTORY) {
+      zipFile = new File('${_recordTo.path}/$kDefaultRecordTo');
+    } else {
+      zipFile = new File(_recordTo.path);
+      await new Directory(path.dirname(zipFile.path)).create(recursive: true);
+    }
+
+    // Resolve collisions.
+    String basename = path.basename(zipFile.path);
+    for (int i = 1; await zipFile.exists(); i++) {
+      assert(await FileSystemEntity.isFile(zipFile.path));
+      String disambiguator = new NumberFormat('00').format(i);
+      String newBasename = basename;
+      if (basename.contains('.')) {
+        List<String> parts = basename.split('.');
+        parts[parts.length - 2] += '-$disambiguator';
+        newBasename = parts.join('.');
+      } else {
+        newBasename += '-$disambiguator';
+      }
+      zipFile = new File(path.join(path.dirname(zipFile.path), newBasename));
+    }
+
+    return await zipFile.create();
+  }
+
+  /// Gets the bytes of our ZIP file recording.
+  Future<List<int>> _getRecordingZipBytes() async {
+    Archive archive = new Archive();
+    Stream<FileSystemEntity> files = _tmpDir.list(recursive: true)
+        .where((FileSystemEntity entity) => FileSystemEntity.isFileSync(entity.path));
+    List<Future<dynamic>> addAllFilesToArchive = <Future<dynamic>>[];
+    await files.forEach((FileSystemEntity entity) {
+      File file = entity;
+      Future<dynamic> readAsBytes = file.readAsBytes();
+      addAllFilesToArchive.add(readAsBytes.then((List<int> data) {
+        archive.addFile(new ArchiveFile.noCompress(
+          path.basename(file.path), data.length, data));
+      }));
+    });
+
+    await Future.wait(addAllFilesToArchive);
+    return new ZipEncoder().encode(archive);
+  }
+}
+
+/// A [Process] implementation that records `stdout` and `stderr` stream events
+/// to disk before forwarding them on to the underlying stream listener.
+class _RecordingProcess implements Process {
+  final Process delegate;
+  final String basename;
+  final RecordingProcessManager manager;
+
+  bool _started = false;
+
+  StreamController<List<int>> _stdoutController = new StreamController<List<int>>();
+  StreamController<List<int>> _stderrController = new StreamController<List<int>>();
+
+  _RecordingProcess({this.manager, this.basename, this.delegate});
+
+  Future<Null> startRecording() async {
+    assert(!_started);
+    _started = true;
+    await Future.wait(<Future<Null>>[
+      _recordStream(delegate.stdout, _stdoutController, 'stdout'),
+      _recordStream(delegate.stderr, _stderrController, 'stderr'),
+    ]);
+  }
+
+  Future<Null> _recordStream(
+    Stream<List<int>> stream,
+    StreamController<List<int>> controller,
+    String suffix,
+  ) async {
+    String path = '${manager._tmpDir.path}/$basename.$suffix';
+    File file = await new File(path).create();
+    RandomAccessFile recording = await file.open(mode: FileMode.WRITE);
+    stream.listen(
+      (List<int> data) {
+        // Write synchronously to guarantee that the order of data
+        // within our recording is preserved across stream notifications.
+        recording.writeFromSync(data);
+        // Flush immediately so that if the program crashes, forensic
+        // data from the recording won't be lost.
+        recording.flushSync();
+        controller.add(data);
+      },
+      onError: (dynamic error, StackTrace stackTrace) {
+        recording.closeSync();
+        controller.addError(error, stackTrace);
+      },
+      onDone: () {
+        recording.closeSync();
+        controller.close();
+      },
+    );
+  }
+
+  @override
+  Future<int> get exitCode => delegate.exitCode;
+
+  @override
+  set exitCode(Future<int> exitCode) => delegate.exitCode = exitCode;
+
+  @override
+  Stream<List<int>> get stdout {
+    assert(_started);
+    return _stdoutController.stream;
+  }
+
+  @override
+  Stream<List<int>> get stderr {
+    assert(_started);
+    return _stderrController.stream;
+  }
+
+  @override
+  IOSink get stdin {
+    // We don't currently support recording `stdin`.
+    return delegate.stdin;
+  }
+
+  @override
+  int get pid => delegate.pid;
+
+  @override
+  bool kill([ProcessSignal signal = ProcessSignal.SIGTERM]) => delegate.kill(signal);
+}
diff --git a/packages/flutter_tools/lib/src/runner/flutter_command_runner.dart b/packages/flutter_tools/lib/src/runner/flutter_command_runner.dart
index bc79962a028..1d1ce7ed381 100644
--- a/packages/flutter_tools/lib/src/runner/flutter_command_runner.dart
+++ b/packages/flutter_tools/lib/src/runner/flutter_command_runner.dart
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import '../android/android_sdk.dart';
 import '../base/context.dart';
 import '../base/logger.dart';
 import '../base/process.dart';
+import '../base/process_manager.dart';
 import '../cache.dart';
 import '../dart/package_map.dart';
 import '../device.dart';
@@ -93,6 +94,14 @@ class FlutterCommandRunner extends CommandRunner<Null> {
             'Name of a build output within the engine out directory, if you are building Flutter locally.\n'
             'Use this to select a specific version of the engine if you have built multiple engine targets.\n'
             'This path is relative to --local-engine-src-path/out.');
+    argParser.addOption('record-to',
+        help:
+            'Enables recording of process invocations (including stdout and '
+            'stderr of all such invocations), and serializes that recording to '
+            'the specified location.\n'
+            'If the location is a directory, a ZIP file named `recording.zip` '
+            'will be created in that directory. Otherwise, a ZIP file will be '
+            'created with the path specified in this flag.');
   }
 
   @override
@@ -142,6 +151,19 @@ class FlutterCommandRunner extends CommandRunner<Null> {
       context.setVariable(Logger, new VerboseLogger());
     }
 
+    if (globalResults['record-to'] != null) {
+      // Turn on recording
+      String recordToPath = globalResults['record-to'].trim();
+      FileSystemEntity recordTo;
+      if (recordToPath.isNotEmpty) {
+        recordTo = await FileSystemEntity.isDirectory(recordToPath)
+            ? new Directory(recordToPath)
+            : new File(recordToPath);
+      }
+      context.setVariable(ProcessManager,
+          new RecordingProcessManager(recordTo: recordTo));
+    }
+
     logger.quiet = globalResults['quiet'];
 
     if (globalResults.wasParsed('color'))
diff --git a/packages/flutter_tools/pubspec.yaml b/packages/flutter_tools/pubspec.yaml
index 90181890e20..1552747779f 100644
--- a/packages/flutter_tools/pubspec.yaml
+++ b/packages/flutter_tools/pubspec.yaml
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ dependencies:
   crypto: '>=1.1.1 <3.0.0'
   file: ^0.1.0
   http: ^0.11.3
+  intl: '>=0.14.0 <0.15.0'
   json_rpc_2: ^2.0.0
   json_schema: 1.0.6
   linter: ^0.1.21