Recently, during Windows 2008 Cluster implementation I was asked the question about Cluster Log. Equally question was, Misha, why we don't see the Cluster log in %systemroot%\system32\LogFiles\Cluster folder, like it was in a previous version of a cluster.

This simple and short answer is its no longer there.

Microsoft replaced the cluster logs with an event based tracing system.

The new model is an update to the NT Event Log service. NT Event Log provides additional features to better support monitoring and diagnostics of Windows applications, services, components, and drivers.

However, if you still would like to get access to the old familiar cluster.log file you should do the following steps:

1. Go to a command prompt
2. Type "Cluster /Cluster:yourclustername log /gen /copy "C:\temp".
3. Navigate to the c:\temp directory and there you will find the .log files for each node of your cluster.

The cluster log can now be opened in Notepad.

Please note that you need to run this command after each change as its not dynamically updated like the old .log file.