Couple of minor improvements

Author: timfish

packages/node/src/backend.ts

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { BaseBackend } from '@sentry/core';
 import { Event, EventHint, Severity, Transport, TransportOptions } from '@sentry/types';
 import { makeDsn, resolvedSyncPromise } from '@sentry/utils';
 
-import { eventFromException, eventFromMessage } from './eventbuilder';
+import { eventFromError, eventFromMessage } from './eventbuilder';
 import { HTTPSTransport, HTTPTransport } from './transports';
 import { NodeOptions } from './types';
 
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ export class NodeBackend extends BaseBackend<NodeOptions> {
    */
   // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any, @typescript-eslint/explicit-module-boundary-types
   public eventFromException(exception: any, hint?: EventHint): PromiseLike<Event> {
-    return resolvedSyncPromise(eventFromException(exception, hint));
+    return resolvedSyncPromise(eventFromError(exception, hint));
   }
 
   /**

packages/node/src/eventbuilder.ts

@@ -23,18 +23,24 @@ export function extractStackFromError(error: Error): StackFrame[] {
  * Extracts stack frames from the error and builds a Sentry Exception
  */
 export function exceptionFromError(error: Error): Exception {
-  return {
+  const exception: Exception = {
     type: error.name || error.constructor.name,
     value: error.message,
-    stacktrace: { frames: extractStackFromError(error) },
   };
+
+  const frames = extractStackFromError(error);
+  if (frames.length) {
+    exception.stacktrace = { frames: extractStackFromError(error) };
+  }
+
+  return exception;
 }
 
 /**
  * Builds and Event from a Exception
  * @hidden
  */
-export function eventFromException(exception: unknown, hint?: EventHint): Event {
+export function eventFromError(exception: unknown, hint?: EventHint): Event {
   // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
   let ex: any = exception;
   const providedMechanism: Mechanism | undefined =