diff --git a/python/qemu/aqmp/util.py b/python/qemu/aqmp/util.py
index 5b8f968969..52a1532188 100644
--- a/python/qemu/aqmp/util.py
+++ b/python/qemu/aqmp/util.py
@@ -4,10 +4,15 @@ Miscellaneous Utilities
 This module provides asyncio utilities and compatibility wrappers for
 Python 3.6 to provide some features that otherwise become available in
 Python 3.7+.
+
+Various logging and debugging utilities are also provided, such as
+`exception_summary()` and `pretty_traceback()`, used primarily for
+adding information into the logging stream.
 """
 
 import asyncio
 import sys
+import traceback
 from typing import (
     Any,
     Coroutine,
@@ -140,3 +145,54 @@ async def wait_closed(writer: asyncio.StreamWriter) -> None:
 
     while sock.fileno() != -1:
         await asyncio.sleep(0)
+
+
+# ----------------------------
+# Section: Logging & Debugging
+# ----------------------------
+
+
+def exception_summary(exc: BaseException) -> str:
+    """
+    Return a summary string of an arbitrary exception.
+
+    It will be of the form "ExceptionType: Error Message", if the error
+    string is non-empty, and just "ExceptionType" otherwise.
+    """
+    name = type(exc).__qualname__
+    smod = type(exc).__module__
+    if smod not in ("__main__", "builtins"):
+        name = smod + '.' + name
+
+    error = str(exc)
+    if error:
+        return f"{name}: {error}"
+    return name
+
+
+def pretty_traceback(prefix: str = "  | ") -> str:
+    """
+    Formats the current traceback, indented to provide visual distinction.
+
+    This is useful for printing a traceback within a traceback for
+    debugging purposes when encapsulating errors to deliver them up the
+    stack; when those errors are printed, this helps provide a nice
+    visual grouping to quickly identify the parts of the error that
+    belong to the inner exception.
+
+    :param prefix: The prefix to append to each line of the traceback.
+    :return: A string, formatted something like the following::
+
+      | Traceback (most recent call last):
+      |   File "foobar.py", line 42, in arbitrary_example
+      |     foo.baz()
+      | ArbitraryError: [Errno 42] Something bad happened!
+    """
+    output = "".join(traceback.format_exception(*sys.exc_info()))
+
+    exc_lines = []
+    for line in output.split('\n'):
+        exc_lines.append(prefix + line)
+
+    # The last line is always empty, omit it
+    return "\n".join(exc_lines[:-1])