diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py b/lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py
index 2d91e810c2b..0ff87a1f0c9 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py
@@ -2055,7 +2055,7 @@ class AnsibleModule(object):
             if e.errno not in [errno.EPERM, errno.EXDEV, errno.EACCES, errno.ETXTBSY, errno.EBUSY]:
                 # only try workarounds for errno 18 (cross device), 1 (not permitted),  13 (permission denied)
                 # and 26 (text file busy) which happens on vagrant synced folders and other 'exotic' non posix file systems
-                self.fail_json(msg='Could not replace file: %s to %s: %s' % (src, dest, e))
+                self.fail_json(msg='Could not replace file: %s to %s: %s' % (src, dest, e), exception=traceback.format_exc())
             else:
                 b_dest_dir = os.path.dirname(b_dest)
                 # Use bytes here.  In the shippable CI, this fails with
@@ -2075,7 +2075,7 @@ class AnsibleModule(object):
                     # would end in something like:
                     #     file = _os.path.join(dir, pre + name + suf)
                     # TypeError: can't concat bytes to str
-                    self.fail_json(msg='Failed creating temp file for atomic move.  This usually happens when using Python3 less than Python3.5.  Please use Python2.x or Python3.5 or greater.', exception=sys.exc_info())
+                    self.fail_json(msg='Failed creating temp file for atomic move.  This usually happens when using Python3 less than Python3.5.  Please use Python2.x or Python3.5 or greater.', exception=traceback.format_exc())
 
                 b_tmp_dest_name = to_bytes(tmp_dest_name, errors='surrogate_or_strict')
 
@@ -2108,10 +2108,10 @@ class AnsibleModule(object):
                             if unsafe_writes and e.errno == errno.EBUSY:
                                 self._unsafe_writes(b_tmp_dest_name, b_dest)
                             else:
-                                self.fail_json(msg='Unable to rename file: %s to %s: %s' % (src, dest, e))
+                                self.fail_json(msg='Unable to rename file: %s to %s: %s' % (src, dest, e), exception=traceback.format_exc())
                     except (shutil.Error, OSError, IOError):
                         e = get_exception()
-                        self.fail_json(msg='Failed to replace file: %s to %s: %s' % (src, dest, e))
+                        self.fail_json(msg='Failed to replace file: %s to %s: %s' % (src, dest, e), exception=traceback.format_exc())
                 finally:
                     self.cleanup(b_tmp_dest_name)
 
@@ -2143,7 +2143,7 @@ class AnsibleModule(object):
                     in_src.close()
         except (shutil.Error, OSError, IOError):
             e = get_exception()
-            self.fail_json(msg='Could not write data to file (%s) from (%s): %s' % (dest, src, e))
+            self.fail_json(msg='Could not write data to file (%s) from (%s): %s' % (dest, src, e), exception=traceback.format_exc())
 
 
     def _read_from_pipes(self, rpipes, rfds, file_descriptor):