Snyk Log Sniffer: AI-Powered Audit Log Insights for Security Leaders

Snyk empowers organizations to build fast and stay secure. As security and engineering teams scale their use of Snyk across the enterprise, understanding what's happening across your group and organizations becomes critical–from API integrations and user access patterns to policy changes and security events.

However, raw audit logs alone can be overwhelming and difficult to interpret. Security leaders need instant visibility into critical events, risk patterns, and user activity. Engineering leaders require clear insights into API usage, integration health, and operational trends to inform their decisions. Traditional log analysis is time-consuming and often requires specialized expertise to extract meaningful insights.

Introducing Log Sniffer, an innovative open source solution that transforms Snyk audit logs into actionable intelligence, providing a clear, AI-powered view of your security posture. Built for security and engineering leaders, Log Sniffer combines real-time data fetching from the Snyk API with AI-powered analysis through Google Gemini, delivering:

• Executive summaries auto-generated for leadership with critical events, risk analysis, and actionable recommendations

• AI-powered Insights that answer your security questions in natural language

• Real-time monitoring of audit events across your entire Snyk organization

• Intelligent filtering to surface what matters most to your team

Stop drowning in logs. Start making informed decisions with Log Sniffer.

Why audit log analysis matters for AppSec and Engineering

Audit logs provide a reliable record of activities that support incident investigations and root cause analysis. In application security platforms, they also help confirm compliance with policies such as scan frequency and security gate enforcement. 

However, finding the root cause in audit logs from a platform used by many developers simultaneously can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. Manually sifting through massive JSON files is not an efficient approach. 

That’s why we built LogSniffer - a smarter way to cut through the noise, pinpoint root causes fast, and even surface the unknown unknowns before they become problems.

Key Highlights of Log Sniffer

1. Real-time, AI-powered executive summaries 

LogSniffer offers real-time, AI-powered executive summaries that deliver instant, actionable insights for AppSec and Engineering leaders by automatically generating comprehensive summaries that cut through the noise of security data. 

Leveraging real-time analysis of up to 500 audit logs from the last 24 hours via the Snyk API, each summary provides a complete picture, including an overview of your security posture, critical events requiring immediate attention, risk analysis highlighting potential vulnerabilities, user activity patterns, data-driven recommendations for remediation, and key metrics to track progress over time. 

With built-in download and copy functionality, leaders can seamlessly incorporate these AI-generated insights into reports, presentations, and stakeholder communications, transforming raw audit data into strategic intelligence in seconds rather than hours.

2. Security insights enhanced by Google Gemini AI Model

Security Insights, enhanced by Google Gemini AI Model, revolutionizes how teams interact with security data through intelligent, conversational analysis. By integrating Google's advanced Gemini AI model, the platform enables natural language queries and chat-driven insights that make complex security events accessible to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Instead of manually sifting through raw audit logs and event data, teams can simply ask questions in plain English and receive contextualized answers that highlight what matters most. The AI analyzes patterns, correlates events, assesses risk severity, and provides actionable intelligence that helps teams understand not just what happened, but why it matters and what to do about it. This transformation of raw security data into conversational, contextual insights empowers faster decision-making and more effective risk mitigation across the organization.

3. Seamless Snyk API integration

Log Sniffer connects directly to Snyk's core platform through native API integration, giving you instant access to audit log data across your entire Snyk ecosystem. Built to handle Snyk's evolving API architecture, the application adapts to different data structures and API versions, ensuring robust interoperability as your Snyk environment grows and changes.

Security is built in from the ground up with token-based authentication and secure configuration management, so your credentials remain protected while you gain unprecedented visibility into your Snyk activity. Simply configure your API token once, and Log Sniffer handles the rest—fetching, parsing, and analyzing your audit data in real-time, so you can focus on what matters: making informed security decisions.

Technical innovation and opportunity for Snyk users

Log Sniffer represents a new frontier in security tooling by combining AI-enabled analysis with traditional audit log management, effectively bridging the gap between raw security data and actionable decision-making. Powered by Google's Gemini AI, the platform transforms complex audit events into conversational insights that both technical and non-technical stakeholders can understand and act upon immediately.

Built on a modern, developer-first stack (React, TypeScript, Express, and PostgreSQL), Log Sniffer is designed for rapid extensibility and community-driven innovation. Whether you need custom filtering logic, new visualization capabilities, or integration with other security tools, the clean architecture and familiar technologies make contributions straightforward for developers of all skill levels.

The opportunity for Snyk users

Gain plug-and-play advanced audit log intelligence that integrates seamlessly into existing security workflows. Rather than building custom analytics solutions from scratch or manually parsing logs, teams can deploy Log Sniffer and immediately start extracting value, boosting productivity, reducing time-to-insight, and ultimately minimizing security risks across the organization.

How to get started and embrace a smarter approach to security

Log Sniffer stands as a testament to the power of AI in revolutionizing how security and engineering teams interact with audit logs. It surpasses the limitations of traditional log analysis, providing a proactive and intelligent solution for comprehending complex security events. It's time to embrace a smarter, AI-driven approach to security with Log Sniffer.

Excited to get started with LogSniffer? You’ll need a Gemini API key, your Snyk API key, and Node.js v18 or higher. The code is open source on GitHub. Follow the setup steps in the README to spin up your server in minutes.