diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c7733ac3..e587d687 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@
   * Added support for RFC3164 (outdated BSD syslog protocol) to SyslogUdpHandler
   * Fixed issue in GroupHandler and WhatFailureGroupHandler where setting multiple processors would duplicate records
   * Fixed issue in SignalHandler restarting syscalls functionality
+  * Fixed normalizers handling of exception backtraces to avoid serializing arguments in some cases
   * Fixed ZendMonitorHandler to work with the latest Zend Server versions
 
 ### 1.24.0 (2018-11-05)
diff --git a/src/Monolog/Formatter/JsonFormatter.php b/src/Monolog/Formatter/JsonFormatter.php
index 3f6022b6..45fbe13f 100644
--- a/src/Monolog/Formatter/JsonFormatter.php
+++ b/src/Monolog/Formatter/JsonFormatter.php
@@ -178,12 +178,6 @@ class JsonFormatter extends NormalizerFormatter
             foreach ($trace as $frame) {
                 if (isset($frame['file'])) {
                     $data['trace'][] = $frame['file'].':'.$frame['line'];
-                } elseif (isset($frame['function']) && $frame['function'] === '{closure}') {
-                    // We should again normalize the frames, because it might contain invalid items
-                    $data['trace'][] = $frame['function'];
-                } else {
-                    // We should again normalize the frames, because it might contain invalid items
-                    $data['trace'][] = $this->normalize($frame);
                 }
             }
         }
diff --git a/src/Monolog/Formatter/NormalizerFormatter.php b/src/Monolog/Formatter/NormalizerFormatter.php
index b806ccd3..9c42a735 100644
--- a/src/Monolog/Formatter/NormalizerFormatter.php
+++ b/src/Monolog/Formatter/NormalizerFormatter.php
@@ -211,23 +211,6 @@ class NormalizerFormatter implements FormatterInterface
         foreach ($trace as $frame) {
             if (isset($frame['file'])) {
                 $data['trace'][] = $frame['file'].':'.$frame['line'];
-            } elseif (isset($frame['function']) && $frame['function'] === '{closure}') {
-                // Simplify closures handling
-                $data['trace'][] = $frame['function'];
-            } else {
-                if (isset($frame['args'])) {
-                    // Make sure that objects present as arguments are not serialized nicely but rather only
-                    // as a class name to avoid any unexpected leak of sensitive information
-                    $frame['args'] = array_map(function ($arg) {
-                        if (is_object($arg) && !$arg instanceof \DateTimeInterface) {
-                            return sprintf("[object] (%s)", Utils::getClass($arg));
-                        }
-
-                        return $arg;
-                    }, $frame['args']);
-                }
-                // We should again normalize the frames, because it might contain invalid items
-                $data['trace'][] = $this->toJson($this->normalize($frame, $depth + 1), true);
             }
         }
 
@@ -379,12 +362,12 @@ class NormalizerFormatter implements FormatterInterface
 
         return $date->format($this->dateFormat);
     }
-    
+
     protected function addJsonEncodeOption($option)
     {
         $this->jsonEncodeOptions |= $option;
     }
-    
+
     protected function removeJsonEncodeOption($option)
     {
         $this->jsonEncodeOptions ^= $option;
diff --git a/tests/Monolog/Formatter/NormalizerFormatterTest.php b/tests/Monolog/Formatter/NormalizerFormatterTest.php
index c0feb6d6..34c5d4bd 100644
--- a/tests/Monolog/Formatter/NormalizerFormatterTest.php
+++ b/tests/Monolog/Formatter/NormalizerFormatterTest.php
@@ -412,46 +412,7 @@ class NormalizerFormatterTest extends TestCase
         $result = $formatter->format($record);
 
         $this->assertSame(
-            '{"function":"Monolog\\\\Formatter\\\\{closure}","class":"Monolog\\\\Formatter\\\\NormalizerFormatterTest","type":"->","args":["[object] (Monolog\\\\Formatter\\\\TestFooNorm)","[resource(stream)]"]}',
-            $result['context']['exception']['trace'][0]
-        );
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * This test was copied from `testExceptionTraceWithArgs` in order to ensure that pretty prints works
-     */
-    public function testPrettyPrint()
-    {
-        try {
-            // This will contain $resource and $wrappedResource as arguments in the trace item
-            $resource = fopen('php://memory', 'rw+');
-            fwrite($resource, 'test_resource');
-            $wrappedResource = new TestFooNorm;
-            $wrappedResource->foo = $resource;
-            // Just do something stupid with a resource/wrapped resource as argument
-            $arr = [$wrappedResource, $resource];
-            // modifying the array inside throws a "usort(): Array was modified by the user comparison function"
-            usort($arr, function ($a, $b) {
-                throw new \ErrorException('Foo');
-            });
-        } catch (\Throwable $e) {
-        }
-
-        $formatter = new NormalizerFormatter();
-        $record = ['context' => ['exception' => $e]];
-        $formatter->setJsonPrettyPrint(true);
-        $result = $formatter->format($record);
-
-        $this->assertSame(
-            '{
-    "function": "Monolog\\\\Formatter\\\\{closure}",
-    "class": "Monolog\\\\Formatter\\\\NormalizerFormatterTest",
-    "type": "->",
-    "args": [
-        "[object] (Monolog\\\\Formatter\\\\TestFooNorm)",
-        "[resource(stream)]"
-    ]
-}',
+            __FILE__.':'.(__LINE__-9),
             $result['context']['exception']['trace'][0]
         );
     }
@@ -489,7 +450,7 @@ class NormalizerFormatterTest extends TestCase
         $result = $formatter->format($record);
 
         $this->assertSame(
-            '{"function":"throwHelper","class":"Monolog\\\\Formatter\\\\NormalizerFormatterTest","type":"->","args":["[object] (Monolog\\\\Formatter\\\\TestInfoLeak)","'.$dt->format('Y-m-d\TH:i:sP').'"]}',
+            __FILE__ .':'.(__LINE__-9),
             $result['context']['exception']['trace'][0]
         );
     }
diff --git a/tests/Monolog/Formatter/ScalarFormatterTest.php b/tests/Monolog/Formatter/ScalarFormatterTest.php
index 6c519628..c72227f7 100644
--- a/tests/Monolog/Formatter/ScalarFormatterTest.php
+++ b/tests/Monolog/Formatter/ScalarFormatterTest.php
@@ -29,8 +29,6 @@ class ScalarFormatterTest extends \PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase
         foreach ($trace as $frame) {
             if (isset($frame['file'])) {
                 $data[] = $frame['file'].':'.$frame['line'];
-            } else {
-                $data[] = json_encode($frame);
             }
         }