Kushagra Sharma's Blog Posts

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.

Visual Link Analysis with Splunk: Part 3 - Tying Up Loose Ends
Security
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Visual Link Analysis with Splunk: Part 3 - Tying Up Loose Ends

Using Splunk for Link Analysis part 3, addressing loose ends with visual link analysis.
UK Public Sector Predictions for 2021: Part 1
Industries
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UK Public Sector Predictions for 2021: Part 1

What are the issues that will guide senior leaders in Government this year as they continue their transformative journey towards digitalisation, remote work, cloud migration and a data-driven approach to public services? Find our more in this blog.
How Operators Build Operational Excellence with Modern Data Platforms Splunk
Industries
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How Operators Build Operational Excellence with Modern Data Platforms Splunk

CCS Insight recently worked with Splunk to produce a practical guide to help decision-makers within operators seize opportunities afforded by data analytics. The report highlights major demand trends, challenges, solutions and paths to implementation, and hope it will steer operators to become the data-driven businesses they need to be in the post-Covid-19 economy.
Smarter Root Cause Analysis: Determining Causality from your ITSI KPIs
Platform
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Smarter Root Cause Analysis: Determining Causality from your ITSI KPIs

Root cause analysis can be a difficult challenge when you are troubleshooting complex IT systems. In this blog, we are going to take you through how you can perform root cause analysis on your IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) episodes using machine learning, or more specifically causal inference.
Staff Picks for Splunk Security Reading January 2021
Security
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Staff Picks for Splunk Security Reading January 2021

These monthly postings will feature the favorite security-centric presentations, white papers and customer case studies from various peeps in the Splunk (or not) security world that WE think everyone should read. If you would like to read other months, please take a peek at previous posts in the "Staff Picks" series!
Smarter ITSI Episodes Powered by Community Detection Algorithms
Platform
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Smarter ITSI Episodes Powered by Community Detection Algorithms

In this blog we are going to describe how you can create a notable event policy in IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) that is able to group your events using labels generated by unsupervised machine learning in the Smart ITSI Insights App for Splunk – and don’t worry you don’t have to be a data scientist to read this blog!