Get failure exception in @HystrixCommand fallback method

Question

Is there a way to get the reason a HystrixCommand failed when using the @HystrixCommand annotation within a Spring Boot application? It looks like

Answer 1

Most of the time just using getFailedExecutionException().getMessage() gave me null values.

   Exception errorFromThrowable = getExceptionFromThrowable(getExecutionException());
   String errMessage = (errorFromThrowable != null) ? errorFromThrowable.getMessage()

this gives me better results all the time.