Web Server Log Analysis Script

A Python script to parse and analyze web server logs to extract useful information such as visitor statistics, popular pages, and potential security threats.

Introduction

This script is designed to analyze web server logs in the Apache Combined Log Format and provide useful statistics. It extracts information such as the total number of requests, unique visitors, popular pages, status codes, and potential security threats from the logs.

Features

• Parses Apache Combined Log Format logs
• Counts total requests and unique visitors
• Identifies popular pages based on visit frequency
• Reports status code distribution
• Detects potential security threats based on HTTP status codes

Prerequisites

• Python 3.7 or higher