Command-line Log Analysis FOR THE WIN (3/3): Untangling a Web Access Log

February 17, 2021July 10, 2021Leave a comment

Taisa
(Third in a three-part series.)
Reinforce what you've learned with examples and repetition! Taisa guides you through how you can untangle the Web Access Log challenge on your own using the command-line tools from Parts 1 and 2 in this series. You've got this!

Command-line Log Analysis FOR THE WIN (2/3): Walking through “Leaping”

February 15, 2021July 10, 2021Leave a comment

Taisa
(Second in a three-part series.)
In this article, Taisa walks us through how to solve the Leaping Log Analysis challenge using only command-line tools (plus a little OSINT). Utilities demonstrated in this guide: cat, grep, cut, sort, uniq, tr, paste, bc, wc, head, and a little regex.

Command-line Log Analysis FOR THE WIN (1/3): How to Approach a Wild Log

February 10, 2021July 10, 20211 Comment

Taisa
(First in a three-part series.)
In 2017, Taisa was traumatized by logs. In 2018, she was analyzing logs by hand on a browser-only Chromebook. In 2020, she was #1 on the leaderboard in Log Analysis at the end of the Spring Preseason. Follow her Command-line Log Analysis blog series to find out which tools she used and how she did it—and how you can, too!