Not here, but in the other places we log the exception twice. First as a separate message and then shortened stacktrace using LogUtil.log(). 

Now, LogUtil.log() needs to log the stacktrace as regular exception, not as log message (stacktrace contains CR+LF). => We log it twice and if you look at it looks akwards in console/log file. 

The changes here are to make the use consistent - log it only once as {exception, custom message}. It's the standard way we use _log.error(message, exception).