In GitLab 11.6 and up, Gitaly comes with a debugging tool gitaly-debug
that can be run on a production Gitaly server. It is meant to avoid
having to copy-paste shell scripts when troubleshooting. For a list of
its current abilities, see the gitaly-debug
README.
As of 11.6 the only feature of gitaly-debug is to simulate the
server-side workload of a Git clone on a specific repo. We hope to add
more tools over time.