Side note: there’s plenty of Analytics tools that don’t require cookies. Plausible (https://plausible.io) is one of them, there are many others.
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I'm not convinced this is a real concern. Bots, maybe, but then again even fancy analytics will be fucked by that because they use hundreds or thousands of high-reputation residential IPs. So, you're optimizing for the wrong thing I think.
No, you don't need consent for that. It falls under the legitimate interest exception.
You need to disclose it in your privacy policy, you need to delete it after a reasonable retention period and you can't use those logs for other purposes like ad targeting, but you don't need a consent banner to track things that you are legitimately using for security purposes.
But how is wanting to show targeted ads not a legitimate interest. Without such a feature a site might be unprofitable and be shut down. If something is required to operate it sounds pretty important feature.