How to Get & Print current Thread stack trace in Java - Debugging Tutorial Example

import java.util.logging.Logger;

/**
 * Java program to demonstrate how to print and get stack trace for current
 * thread in Java. Stack trace are useful information while debugging or
 * troubleshooting any issue.
 *
 * @author Javin Paul
 */
public class StackTraceExample {
 private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(StringReplace.class.getName());
 
 public static void main(String args[]) {
 
 //calling a method to print stack trace further down
 first();
 } 
 
 public static void first(){
 second();
 }

 private static void second() {
 third();
 }

 private static void third() {
 
 //If you want to print stack trace on console than use dumpStack() method
 System.err.println("Stack trace of current thread using dumpStack() method");
 Thread.currentThread().dumpStack();
 
 //This is another way to print stack trace from current method
 System.err.println("Printing stack trace using printStackTrace() 
 method of Throwable ");
 new Throwable().printStackTrace();
 
 //If you want stack trace as StackTraceElement in program itself than
 //use getStackTrace() method of Thread class
 StackTraceElement[] stackTrace = Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace();
 
 //Once you get StackTraceElement you can also print it to console
 System.err.println("displaying Stack trace from StackTraceElement in Java");
 for(StackTraceElement st : stackTrace){
 // System.err.println(st);
 }
 
 }
 
}

Stack trace of current thread using dumpStack() method
java.lang.Exception: Stack trace
 at java.lang.Thread.dumpStack(Thread.java:1249)
 at test.StringReplace.third(StringReplace.java:38)
 at test.StringReplace.second(StringReplace.java:31)
 at test.StringReplace.first(StringReplace.java:27)
 at test.StringReplace.main(StringReplace.java:23)
Printing stack trace using printStackTrace() method of Throwable
java.lang.Throwable
 at test.StringReplace.third(StringReplace.java:42)
 at test.StringReplace.second(StringReplace.java:31)
 at test.StringReplace.first(StringReplace.java:27)
 at test.StringReplace.main(StringReplace.java:23)
displaying Stack trace from StackTraceElement in Java