# Trying to delete a cluster
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If you get an error while trying to delete a cluster, the following sections provide troubleshooting tips for the common scenarios.

## The `pcluster delete-cluster` command fails to run locally
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Check the `~/.parallelcluster/pcluster-cli.log` file in your local file system.

## The cluster stack fails to delete
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If the cluster stack fails to delete, check the CloudFormation stack events message.

Check if your issue is mentioned in [GitHub Known Issues](https://github.com/aws/aws-parallelcluster/wiki) at AWS ParallelCluster on GitHub.