diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-btree/pom.xml b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-btree/pom.xml
index fa74184..45330e8 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-btree/pom.xml
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-btree/pom.xml
@@ -107,5 +107,18 @@
       <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
       <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
+      <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
+      <artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hyracks</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hyracks-util</artifactId>
+      <version>${project.version}</version>
+    </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </project>
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diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/btree/impls/BTree.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/btree/impls/BTree.java
index 3a062af..f62f2d1 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/btree/impls/BTree.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-btree/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/btree/impls/BTree.java
@@ -69,11 +69,16 @@
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.buffercache.ICachedPage;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.buffercache.IPageWriteCallback;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.file.BufferedFileHandle;
+import org.apache.hyracks.util.JSONUtil;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
 
 public class BTree extends AbstractTreeIndex {
 
     public static final float DEFAULT_FILL_FACTOR = 0.7f;
-
+    private static final Logger LOGGER = LogManager.getLogger();
     private static final long RESTART_OP = Long.MIN_VALUE;
     private static final long FULL_RESTART_OP = Long.MIN_VALUE + 1;
     private static final int MAX_RESTARTS = 10;
@@ -1086,6 +1091,7 @@
                 }
                 ((IBTreeLeafFrame) leafFrame).insertSorted(tuple);
             } catch (HyracksDataException | RuntimeException e) {
+                logState(tuple, e);
                 handleException();
                 throw e;
             }
@@ -1194,6 +1200,24 @@
         public void abort() throws HyracksDataException {
             super.handleException();
         }
+
+        private void logState(ITupleReference tuple, Exception e) {
+            try {
+                ObjectNode state = JSONUtil.createObject();
+                state.set("leafFrame", leafFrame.getState());
+                state.set("interiorFrame", interiorFrame.getState());
+                int tupleSize = Math.max(leafFrame.getBytesRequiredToWriteTuple(tuple),
+                        interiorFrame.getBytesRequiredToWriteTuple(tuple));
+                state.put("tupleSize", tupleSize);
+                state.put("spaceNeeded", tupleWriter.bytesRequired(tuple) + slotSize);
+                state.put("spaceUsed", leafFrame.getBuffer().capacity() - leafFrame.getTotalFreeSpace());
+                state.put("leafMaxBytes", leafMaxBytes);
+                state.put("maxTupleSize", maxTupleSize);
+                LOGGER.error("failed to add tuple {}", state, e);
+            } catch (Throwable t) {
+                e.addSuppressed(t);
+            }
+        }
     }
 
     @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-common/pom.xml b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-common/pom.xml
index 31463b7..703deb8 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-common/pom.xml
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-common/pom.xml
@@ -109,5 +109,9 @@
       <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
       <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
+      <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </project>
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diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/common/api/ITreeIndexFrame.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/common/api/ITreeIndexFrame.java
index dc59612..18d5653 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/common/api/ITreeIndexFrame.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/common/api/ITreeIndexFrame.java
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.buffercache.IBufferCache;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.buffercache.ICachedPage;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.buffercache.IExtraPageBlockHelper;
+import org.apache.hyracks.util.JSONUtil;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
 
 public interface ITreeIndexFrame {
 
@@ -122,4 +125,14 @@
     public ITupleReference getLeftmostTuple() throws HyracksDataException;
 
     public ITupleReference getRightmostTuple() throws HyracksDataException;
+
+    default ObjectNode getState() {
+        ObjectNode json = JSONUtil.createObject();
+        json.put("tupleCount", getTupleCount());
+        json.put("freeSpaceOff", getFreeSpaceOff());
+        json.put("level", getLevel());
+        json.put("pageLsn", getPageLsn());
+        json.put("totalFreeSpace", getTotalFreeSpace());
+        return json;
+    }
 }
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/common/frames/TreeIndexNSMFrame.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/common/frames/TreeIndexNSMFrame.java
index 6106358..08d4564 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/common/frames/TreeIndexNSMFrame.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/common/frames/TreeIndexNSMFrame.java
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.api.ITreeIndexTupleWriter;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.common.ophelpers.SlotOffTupleOff;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.common.buffercache.ICachedPage;
+import org.apache.hyracks.util.JSONUtil;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
 
 public abstract class TreeIndexNSMFrame implements ITreeIndexFrame {
 
@@ -354,4 +358,20 @@
             return frameTuple;
         }
     }
+
+    @Override
+    public ObjectNode getState() {
+        ObjectNode state = ITreeIndexFrame.super.getState();
+        state.put("largeFlag", getLargeFlag());
+        return state;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String toString() {
+        try {
+            return JSONUtil.convertNode(getState());
+        } catch (JsonProcessingException e) {
+            return "failed to convert json";
+        }
+    }
 }