Systems and methods are provided for finding a log file generated by an application during an execution of the application on at least one computer node. The computer node is one of a plurality of computer nodes of a distributed computer that has a computer-readable storage medium that contains therein both a plurality of log files and meta data describing attributes of the log files. In one implementation, a method includes receiving at least one attribute describing a log file that has been generated by the computer node of the distributed computer. The meta data is searched to identify one or more log files described by the received attribute. Locations of the identified log files in the computer-readable storage medium are presented based on the results of the searching step.