MONITOR FAILED LOGINS WITH POWERSHELL LANGUAGE

Monitor failed logins in your PowerShell application

In most Powershell applications, user authentication is a fundamental requirement to control access, safeguard security, and prevent issues like API misuse. Authentication methods can vary, with common approaches including basic authentication, social logins (e.g., Google, Facebook), and more.

Irrespective of the chosen authentication method, dealing with failed login attempts is a frequent concern. Failures can result from incorrect credentials or other factors like login attempts by unauthorized users trying to breach the system. In such scenarios, it is essential to monitor and respond appropriately to failed login attempts. For instance, identifying users repeatedly struggling to log in may prompt us to offer assistance, while cases of brute-force attacks may require immediate actions such as IP address blocking, notifying the targeted user, and more.

Enter Palzin Track, our solution for effective monitoring and issue tracking. Palzin Track is a robust, real-time event tracking tool seamlessly integrated with Powershell. Setting up real-time event tracking for critical application aspects is made straightforward. Additionally, we offer advanced features for taking event tracking to the next level, including user journey creation, analytics, insights, and more.

Consider the example of handling failed logins. With Palzin Track, we can configure it to track failed login attempts and provide notifications when unusual activity is detected. This empowers us to maintain a constant vigilance over our application's security and take prompt action when necessary.

Connect Palzin Track to PowerShell

Setting up Palzin Track

1. Sign up for a free Palzin Track account.
2. Create your first project from the dashboard.
3. Head to settings and copy your API token.

PowerShell code snippets

To track failed logins, you can use the following code snippet Please ensure to replace YOUR_API_TOKEN with your API token and update the project and channel names.

Using PowerShell with RestMethod

$headers = New-Object "System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary\[\[String\],\[String\]\]"  


$headers.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")  


$headers.Add("Authorization", "Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN")  


$body = "{`"project`":`"my-project`",`"channel`":`"status`",`"event`":`"Failed Login Attempt`",`"description`":`"Detected 3 failed login attempts in the last 5 minutes`",`"icon`":`"⚠️`",`"notify`":true}"  


$response = Invoke-RestMethod 'https://api.palzin.live/v1/log' -Method 'POST' -Headers $headers -Body $body  


$response | ConvertTo-Json

PowerShell integration details

We believe that event tracking should be simple and accessible to every developer and team. Therefore, we have worked hard to create the next generation of event-tracking tools. As a result, Palzin Track is flexible and easy to use, making it a great companion for your PowerShell applications.

We would love to see you use Palzin Track to track every aspect of your PowerShell application. So please give us a try and let us know what you think!

Other use-cases for Palzin Track

1. Monitor your CI/CD build status for your PowerShell application
2. Monitor your CPU usage in your PowerShell application
3. Monitor when database goes down in your PowerShell application
4. Monitor high disk usage in your PowerShell application
5. Monitor when a user changes their email address in your PowerShell application
6. Monitor failed payments for your PowerShell application
7. Monitor memory usage in your PowerShell application
8. Monitor MySQL downtime in your PowerShell application
9. Monitor when a new feature is used in your PowerShell application
10. Monitor your Postgres downtime in your PowerShell application
11. Monitor Redis downtime in your PowerShell application
12. Monitor suspicious activity in your PowerShell application
13. Monitor when a user exceeds the usage limit for your PowerShell service
14. Monitor when a user is being rate limited in your PowerShell application
15. Get a notification when your PowerShell code is done executing
16. Send push notifications to your phone or desktop using PowerShell
17. Track canceled subscriptions in your PowerShell application
18. Track your PowerShell cron jobs
19. Track when a file is uploaded to your PowerShell application
20. Track when a form is submitted to your PowerShell application
21. Track payment events via PowerShell
22. Track user sign in events in PowerShell
23. Monitor user signup events via PowerShell
24. Track waitlist signup events via PowerShell