# Error.captureStackTrace() — Using Error.captureStackTrace()

> The getStack() utility function returns the current stack trace at the point it is called, removing itself from the stack.

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The getStack() utility function returns the current stack trace at the point it is called, removing itself from the stack. This serves the same debugging purpose as {{domxref("console.trace()")}}, but allows you to output the string elsewhere. Note that it does not construct an Error instance for this purpose, but installs stack on a plain object, which would be more efficient for our purposes. Normally, you would call Error.captureStackTrace on objects intended to be thrown as errors, as shown in the next example.

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