When I started this project, I wanted to build something that actually does something, not another todo app or weather widget. I'm a third-year CS student at TMU, and I wanted a portfolio project that would make a security engineer say, "Oh, that's interesting."
The result is Log Sentinel, a log analysis dashboard that parses Apache server logs, detects suspicious patterns, scores threats by risk level, and explains every detection in plain English.
Here's how I built it:
The problem with most log analysis tools
Most tools tell you what was flagged. They show you a table of IPs and error codes. But they don't tell you why it's suspicious or what to do about it.
