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Detect Threats from Service Logs

MediumPython

Problem

Given a list of log lines, parse each line and return a summary of suspicious IPs and slow endpoints. Each log line has the format timestamp ip method path status latency_ms. An IP is suspicious if it has at least failed_threshold responses with status 401 or 403. A path is slow if its average latency is at least slow_threshold milliseconds. Return a dictionary with suspicious IPs sorted by descending failure count, and slow paths sorted lexicographically.

Constraints

  • 1 <= len(logs) <= 10^5
  • Each log line contains exactly 6 space-separated fields
  • 100 <= status <= 599
  • 0 <= latency_ms <= 10^6
  • 1 <= failed_threshold <= 10^5
  • 1 <= slow_threshold <= 10^6

Function Signature

def analyze_logs(logs, failed_threshold, slow_threshold):
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