1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving machine data from a computing cluster, the computing cluster including a plurality of computational nodes; parsing the received machine data to determine event boundaries within the received machine data to generate a plurality of time stamped events, the time stamp for each event extracted from the received parsed machine data associated with that event; analyzing the plurality of time stamped events using heuristics to identify an occurrence of an event pattern; comparing the occurrence of the event pattern to one or more registered event patterns that are indicative of a previously determined or known problem for operation of the computing cluster to identify a particular registered event pattern that is the same as or similar to the occurrence of the event pattern; and generating a notification based upon the identification.