An analyst is investigating the number of failed login attempts by IP address.

Thestatscommand is used to generate statistics, such as counts, over specific fields. In this case, the commandindex=security_logs eventtype=failed_login | stats count as failed_attempts by src_ip | sort -failed_attemptscreates a temporary table that counts the number of failed login attempts (failed_attempts) for each source IP (src_ip). Thesort -failed_attemptsensures the results are ordered by the number of failed attempts in descending order, making it easier for an analyst to identify problematic IPs.