webfortilog

Flask-based web application that converts WAF log files into aligned text reports or CSV exports.

Features

• Upload a UTF-8 log file where each line is a single record
• Parse shell-style key=value and key="value with spaces" tokens
• Support vendor mode with fixed columns and full mode with dynamic columns
• Filter by policy and severity with case-sensitive or case-insensitive partial matching
• Sort by combined datetime or severity ranking
• Preview results in the browser and download the generated file
• Run locally with Flask or in Docker with Gunicorn

Project structure

app/
  services/
  templates/
tests/
Dockerfile
pyproject.toml
wsgi.py

Local usage

Requirements

• Python 3.12

Install

python3.12 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e ".[dev]"

Run

export FLASK_APP=wsgi.py
flask run --debug

Open http://127.0.0.1:5000.

Test

pytest

Docker usage

Build

docker build -t webfortilog .

Run

docker run --rm -p 8000:8000 webfortilog

Open http://127.0.0.1:8000.

Docker Compose usage

Start the web app

docker compose up --build web

Run the test suite in a container

docker compose run --rm test

Notes

• Temporary output files are written to instance/outputs
• The application does not require a database
• Gunicorn is used as the production WSGI server