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.

How To Determine When a Host Stops Sending Logs to Splunk...Expeditiously
Tips & Tricks
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How To Determine When a Host Stops Sending Logs to Splunk...Expeditiously

A brief overview on how to use tstats to monitor your hosts and bring awareness when they stop logging to Splunk.
Painting with Data: Choropleth SVG
Platform
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Painting with Data: Choropleth SVG

What are Choropleth SVG Objects? It’s painting with data.
The Next 12 Months - Where IT Leaders Anticipate Spending More Time On
Security
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The Next 12 Months - Where IT Leaders Anticipate Spending More Time On

IDG’s recent “State of the CIO” survey across IT leaders has revealed the impact of COVID-19 on IT organizations and the sudden and unforeseen shifts of their initial 2020 plans.
Monitoring Amazon RDS with Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring
Observability
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Monitoring Amazon RDS with Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring

Amazon’s Relational Database Service (RDS) is one of the most popular database services in the world, used by 47% of companies on AWS according to 2nd Watch’s 2015 AWS Scorecard. In part one of this blog series, I described the top 10 challenges of monitoring Amazon RDS when dealing with larger scale production...
10 Top Things to Monitor in Amazon RDS
Observability
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10 Top Things to Monitor in Amazon RDS

Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring offers a dashboard out of the box that shows you the most important RDS metrics at a glance.
Approaching Kubernetes Security — Detecting Kubernetes Scan with Splunk
Security
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Approaching Kubernetes Security — Detecting Kubernetes Scan with Splunk

Approaching Kubernetes security. Detect and investigate Kubernetes cluster scan and fingerprinting using Splunk.