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Analyze external stack traces

Last modified: 11 October 2024

You might want to analyze exceptions received by someone else, for example, QA engineers, or investigate a deadlock, or a hang-problem. Unlike the exceptions that you get in the debug mode or when running unit tests, these exceptions do not have links that help you navigate to the corresponding locations in the source code. Moreover, the source code can be scrambled.

With IntelliJ IDEA, you can copy an exception or full thread dump, paste it to the Stack Trace Analyzer, explore information, and navigate to the corresponding source code.

Some calls in the Run tool window have a dotted underline. These calls occur inside the try/catch/finally block and can potentially throw an exception. The Try Blocks Highlighting feature in IntelliJ IDEA uses a bold dotted underline for such statements in the stack trace.

the Try Blocks Highlighting feature highlights calls in the Run tool window