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Kushagra Sharma

Kushagra Sharma is a Product Manager at Cisco working on AIOps products that help teams operate complex systems with intelligence and scale. He focuses on translating customer problems into practical, data-driven solutions at the intersection of AI, reliability, and software platforms. Passionate about clear thinking and strong product craft, Kushagra writes to share insights on technology, product strategy, and building systems that actually work in the real world.

Turning Machine Data into Agentic Action: Splunk Now Available in Cisco Cloud Control
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Turning Machine Data into Agentic Action: Splunk Now Available in Cisco Cloud Control

Splunk is now available within Cisco Cloud Control
What Is a Guardrail in AI?
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What Is a Guardrail in AI?

AI guardrails block, redact, or rewrite bad model output before users see it. Learn the five components of a production guardrail and the latency each needs.
Implementing AI Guardrails: A Tactical Guide
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Implementing AI Guardrails: A Tactical Guide

AI guardrails belong in middleware, not application code. The latency budget, cascading execution order, and fallback logic for a production guardrail layer.
How to Set Up Evals with LLM-as-Judge
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How to Set Up Evals with LLM-as-Judge

The eval engineering lifecycle is a framework for standing up and harnessing evals for AI governance at scale. Learn how and when to implement the lifecycle.
Join Microsoft at .conf26: Accelerating AI, Security, and Digital Resilience with Splunk
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Join Microsoft at .conf26: Accelerating AI, Security, and Digital Resilience with Splunk

Microsoft returns to .conf26 marking another milestone in our growing strategic partnership.
Bring the Power of SPL To Log Investigations in Splunk Observability Cloud
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Bring the Power of SPL To Log Investigations in Splunk Observability Cloud

Splunk Observability Cloud is introducing an SPL search experience directly in Logs Explorer.