Obtener un string con el mensaje (stacktrace) de una excepción

Exception ex = new Exception("something went wrong");
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
ex.printStackTrace(new PrintWriter(sw));
String stacktrace = sw.toString();
System.out.println("stacktrace = " + stacktrace);

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