Limit Login Attempts Reloaded keeps the authentication door narrow. Each failed login increments retry counters in WordPress options, and each lockout writes a row capturing IP, username, gateway, and timestamp. The admin shows lockouts as a paginated table with simple filters, which is useful for case-by-case review and less useful when an admin needs to see a week of attack patterns at once.

SleekView reads the lockout dataset directly. Charts then group by source IP, by attempted username, by gateway, and by date. A Number card counts lockouts today; a Pie shows the IPv4-vs-XML-RPC mix; a Bar ranks usernames most often attacked; a Line tracks lockouts per hour.

The plugin keeps owning the retry counters, the lockout decisions, and the safelist. SleekView only adds the aggregation layer so trends become visible without leaving WordPress.

Limit Login Attempts Reloaded is one of the most installed brute-force defences on WordPress and its lockout log is dense with detail. The trade-off is that the admin presents that log row by row, which makes the per-incident view tidy and the macro view invisible. SleekView Charts closes that gap by reading the lockout table directly and aggregating it into chart cards.

The plugin keeps owning the counters, the lockouts, and the safelist. The team gets daily KPIs, gateway breakdowns, username rankings, and per-hour trend lines without exporting CSVs or installing a reporting tool. Two surfaces, one source of truth.