How Can I Collect Log Information About a Windows Cluster?

Different versions of Windows clusters have different methods to collect logs. Windows Server 2003, 2008, and 2012 clusters are used as examples.

1.     Collecting logs about a Windows Server 2003 cluster

Go to the C:\WINDOWS\Cluster directory and you can see the cluster.log file, which is the log of Windows Server 2003 clusters.

2.     Collecting logs about a Windows Server 2008 cluster

You need to run a command because the Windows Server 2008 cluster log is not recorded to files. Open cmd.exe and enter cluster.exe log /g /node:%computername% to collect cluster logs of the current node. You can run cluster.exe log /g to collect logs of all nodes in the cluster. The following figure shows details:

After the commands are run, a cluster log is generated and is saved in the C:\Windows\Cluster\Reports directory, as shown in the following figure.

3.     Collecting logs about a Windows Server 2012 cluster

You need to run a PowerShell command. Open PowerShell and run get-clusterlog -node:%computername% -uselocaltime.

After the commands are run, a cluster log is generated and is saved in the C:\Windows\Cluster\Reports directory, as shown in the following figure.