Unfortunately that's one of the few tools most sorely missed in our transition from Mitel to Cisco.
However, if you know the extension that made the call and you have the 3rd party "Phone Remote" software from VOIP Integration dot com, you can quickly & easily remote-in to the phone and look at the call history screen.
Your only other option is to go to the phone and physically look at the history, which if it's been erased (or cleared) then you're back to digging into CDR.
Original MUG/NAMU Charter Member