import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.StringWriter;

public class PrintStackTrace {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        try {
            int division = 0 / 0;
        } catch (ArithmeticException e) {
            StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
            e.printStackTrace(new PrintWriter(sw));
            String exceptionAsString = sw.toString();
            System.out.println(exceptionAsString);
        }
    }
}

运行程序时，输出将类似：

java.lang.ArithmeticException: / by zero
at PrintStackTrace.main(PrintStackTrace.java:9)

Apache Commons Lang 3.4（JavaDoc）代码：

public static String getStackTrace(final Throwable throwable) {
    final StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
    final PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(sw, true);
    throwable.printStackTrace(pw);
    return sw.getBuffer().toString();
}

与其他答案的不同之处在于，它在PrintWriter上使用autoFlush。

如果你是为Android开发的，一个更简单的方法是使用这个：

import android.util.Log;

String stackTrace = Log.getStackTraceString(exception); 

格式与getStacktrace相同，例如。

09-24 16:09:07.042:I/System.out（4844）：java.lang.NullPointerException09-24 16:09:07.042:I/System.out（4844）：在com.temp.ttscancel.MainActivity.onCreate（MainActivity.java:43）09-24 16:09:07.042:I/System.out（4844）：在android.app.Activity.performCreate（Activity.java:5248）09-24 16:09:07.043:I/System.out（4844）：在android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate（Instrumentation.java：1110）09-24 16:09:07.043:I/System.out（4844）：在android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity（ActivityThread.java：2162）09-24 16:09:07.043:I/System.out（4844）：在android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity（ActivityThread.java：2257）09-24 16:09:07.043:I/System.out（4844）：在android.app.ActivityThread.access$800（ActivityThread.java:139）09-24 16:09:07.043:I/System.out（4844）：在android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage（ActivityThread.java:1210）09-24 16:09:07.043:I/System.out（4844）：在android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage（Handler.java:102）09-24 16:09:07.043:I/System.out（4844）：在android.os.Looper.lop（Looper.java：136）09-24 16:09:07.044:I/System.out（4844）：在android.app.ActivityThread.main（ActivityThread.java：5097）09-24 16:09:07.044:I/System.out（4844）：在java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative（本机方法）09-24 16:09:07.044:I/System.out（4844）：在java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke（Method.java：515）09-24 16:09:07.044:I/System.out（4844）：在com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run（ZygoteInit.java:785）09-24 16:09:07.044:I/System.out（4844）：在com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main（ZygoteInit.java:601）

下面是一个可以直接复制到代码中的版本：

import java.io.StringWriter; 
import java.io.PrintWriter;

//Two lines of code to get the exception into a StringWriter
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
new Throwable().printStackTrace(new PrintWriter(sw));

//And to actually print it
logger.info("Current stack trace is:\n" + sw.toString());

或者，在捕捉块中

} catch (Throwable t) {
    StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
    t.printStackTrace(new PrintWriter(sw));
    logger.info("Current stack trace is:\n" + sw.toString());
}

老问题，但我想补充一个特殊情况，即您不想打印所有堆栈，通过删除一些您实际上不感兴趣的部分，排除某些类或包。

使用SelectivePrintWriter代替PrintWriter：

// This filters out this package and up.
String packageNameToFilter = "org.springframework";

StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
PrintWriter pw = new SelectivePrintWriter(sw, packageNameToFilter);
e.printStackTrace(pw);
String sStackTrace = sw.toString(); 
System.out.println(sStackTrace);

其中SelectivePrintWriter类由以下给出：

public class SelectivePrintWriter extends PrintWriter {
    private boolean on = true;
    private static final String AT = "\tat";
    private String internal;

    public SelectivePrintWriter(Writer out, String packageOrClassName) {
        super(out);
        internal = "\tat " + packageOrClassName;
    }

    public void println(Object obj) {
        if (obj instanceof String) {
            String txt = (String) obj;
            if (!txt.startsWith(AT)) on = true;
            else if (txt.startsWith(internal)) on = false;
            if (on) super.println(txt);
        } else {
            super.println(obj);
        }
    }
}

请注意，这个类可能很容易被Regex、contains或其他条件过滤掉。还要注意，这取决于可丢弃的实现细节（不太可能改变，但仍然如此）。

对Gala的回答进行了详细分析，其中还将包括例外情况的原因：

private String extrapolateStackTrace(Exception ex) {
    Throwable e = ex;
    String trace = e.toString() + "\n";
    for (StackTraceElement e1 : e.getStackTrace()) {
        trace += "\t at " + e1.toString() + "\n";
    }
    while (e.getCause() != null) {
        e = e.getCause();
        trace += "Cause by: " + e.toString() + "\n";
        for (StackTraceElement e1 : e.getStackTrace()) {
            trace += "\t at " + e1.toString() + "\n";
        }
    }
    return trace;
}