Methods and systems are provided that may be implemented to detect and capture information related to host system hang events which may occur during booted and in-band operation of an information handling system, e.g., for further analysis such as debugging. The disclosed methods and systems may be employed to monitor for behavior that is indicative of the occurrence of a host processing device system hang event that occurs while a host operating system is booted and running on the host processing device. Information regarding the nature and/or cause of a detected system hang event may be captured and stored for further analysis and/or for identifying a corrective action.