System Log Analyzer

A Python automation tool that parses Linux system logs, extracts structured insights, and generates CSV reports summarizing user activity and error frequency. This project demonstrates real-world scripting, log analysis, and data processing skills.

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🚀 Features

• Parses syslog.log line-by-line using regular expressions
• Extracts INFO and ERROR events
• Tracks error message frequency
• Tracks per-user activity
• Generates two CSV reports:
  • error_message.csv — sorted by most frequent errors
  • user_statistics.csv — sorted alphabetically by username
• Clean, documented Python code with clear workflow sections

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🧠 Skills Demonstrated

• Python scripting
• Regular expressions (re module)
• CSV generation (csv module)
• File handling
• Data structures (dictionaries, sorting, tuples)
• Automation and log parsing
• Clean code and documentation practices
• Git & GitHub workflow

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📂 File Structure