Determining Current Call Stack (For Diagnostic Purposes)

Question

For diagnostic purposes I sometimes need to store the call stack that lead to a given state transition (such as granting a lock, committing a transaction, etc.) so that when

Answer 1

There's a new option since JDK 9: StackWalker

It isn't as expensive as Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace().

see also How Expensive is Thread.getStackTrace()?