Track 17 · Lesson 6 of 12

Project: web server log analyzer

Parse a web shop's access log with a regular expression, then count status codes, rank endpoints, detect bursts of server errors and write an incident report.

You will be able to

• Write a regular expression with named groups that parses one log line into a dictionary
• Read a log file defensively, skipping blank lines and counting malformed ones
• Count and rank records with Counter and a sort key that breaks ties
• Detect error spikes by grouping requests per minute and applying a threshold
• Combine small, tested functions into a readable plain-text report