Can I get detailed exception stacktrace in PowerShell?

Question

Runing such script:

 1: function foo()
 2: {
 3:    bar
 4: }
 5: 
 6: function bar()
 7: {
 8:     throw \"test\"
 9: }
10: 
11: foo

I see

Answer 1

You can also change the default formatting for the error object to include the stack trace. Basically, make your format file by copying the chunk for System.Management.Automation.ErrorRecord from $PSHOME\PowerShellCore.format.ps1xml and add your own element that adds the trace. Then load it with Update-FormatData. For more details, I've just written a blog post about it: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sergey_babkins_blog/2016/12/28/getting-a-stack-trace-in-powershell/

Oh, one more thing: this doesn't propagate automatically into the remote sessions. The objects get formatted into strings on the remote side. For stack traces in the remote sessions you'll have to upload this file there and call Update-FormatData there again.