WP fail2ban formats every relevant authentication event (failed login, blocked username, XML-RPC abuse, REST authentication failure) as a tagged syslog line so a fail2ban daemon on the server can ban IPs at the firewall. The plugin is intentionally lightweight, with its operational surface being log lines rather than database rows. Where a companion logger, a SIEM exporter, or the plugin's persistence add-on stores the same events in WordPress, the data accumulates in wp_options or a dedicated table.

SleekView reads whichever persisted event store your stack uses and surfaces it inside WordPress. Time, IP, event type, attempted username, and request URL become first-class columns. Filter to event-type equals WPF2B_AUTH_FAIL for failed logins. Sort by IP to rank attackers. Save the view as the in-admin counterpart to the fail2ban jail log.

The OS-layer ban remains entirely fail2ban's responsibility. SleekView adds the in-admin audit surface so site owners who do not have direct shell access still get a queryable view of the events that triggered the OS-level bans.

WP fail2ban's design choice (emit clean syslog lines and let a real fail2ban daemon do the OS-level work) is the right architecture for a hardened WordPress install on a managed host. The trade-off is that site owners who do not also have shell access cannot see the events that triggered the bans, and compliance reviews struggle to attach evidence that lives only in syslog. Where your stack also persists those events to the WordPress database, SleekView reads them and renders the history as a workspace.

Filtering by event constant, IP, and endpoint produces in-admin counterparts to the fail2ban jail filters. Per-client saved views and CSV exports let managed hosts give every tenant a self-serve audit surface without sharing root access. The OS-level ban remains the durable defence.

SleekView adds the WordPress-layer review surface so the team that owns the site can answer 'what triggered this' without leaving wp-admin.