WP fail2ban is the bridge between WordPress and the operating system's fail2ban daemon. The plugin uses openlog() and syslog() to write structured lines like wordpress(www.example.com)[1234]: Authentication failure for admin from 192.168.0.1 under the wordpress syslog tag. The dashboard widget shows the last 5 messages, the premium event log keeps a full history in wp_fail2ban_log, and fail2ban itself parses the messages with the bundled filter files.

SleekView Charts puts the answers on one screen by indexing the wordpress-tagged syslog lines into a SleekView source (or reading wp_fail2ban_log directly when the premium event log is enabled). A Number card carries today's events, a Pie groups by event type (authentication failure, spam, pingback, comment attempt, user enumeration), a Bar ranks remote IPs, and an Area card tracks events per day.

Because charts read parsed log rows, the plugin and fail2ban itself are unchanged. WP fail2ban keeps logging, fail2ban keeps banning, and the dashboard simply makes the volume legible to anyone responsible for the site.

WP fail2ban writes structured syslog lines exactly so fail2ban can ban abusive IPs, but the WordPress side never gets a real dashboard for that same data. Aggregate questions, the ones that matter during an attack or a security review, need charts. Which event types dominate, which IPs keep coming back, when the spike started, whether spam outpaces auth failures.

Those questions are about distribution and time, not a single syslog line. SleekView Charts gives the wordpress syslog tag (and the premium event log) a real dashboard surface so security teams can answer trend questions without exporting and without leaving WordPress.