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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.

Dashboards Beta v0.9: All Things Inputs
Tips & Tricks
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Dashboards Beta v0.9: All Things Inputs

The Splunk Dashboards app (beta) v0.9 comes with an updated UI for configuring dashboard inputs, and additional example dashboards! This blog contains tips and tricks for setting up your dashboard inputs.
Splunk Connect for Syslog: Turnkey and Scalable Syslog GDI - Part 3
Tips & Tricks
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Splunk Connect for Syslog: Turnkey and Scalable Syslog GDI - Part 3

Get a closer look at the specifics of Splunk Connect for Syslog configuration, including a review of the local (mounted) file system layout and the areas in which you will be working.
Splunk Connect for Syslog: Turnkey and Scalable Syslog GDI - Part 4
Tips & Tricks
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Splunk Connect for Syslog: Turnkey and Scalable Syslog GDI - Part 4

In the final installment of this four-part blog series on Splunk Connect for Syslog, we'll walk through the configuration of an entirely new data source – one that SC4S does not address out of the box.
Genesys + Splunk = Complete Control Over Your Contact Center
Platform
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Genesys + Splunk = Complete Control Over Your Contact Center

Splunk released the Genesys App for Splunk, which allows customers to get real-time insights into agent status, agent performance, and queue performance of your Genesys Engage contact center environment via API integration with one or more of your Genesys Pulse instances. Today, we're exploring what's inside the Genesys App for Splunk.
Using Splunk to Detect Sunburst Backdoor
Security
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Using Splunk to Detect Sunburst Backdoor

The Sunburst Backdoor threat truly burst on the scene as a send off for 2020. The good news is that the Splunk Security team has produced detections you can run in Splunk Enterprise Security to help you protect your environment from this sophisticated threat.
Prometheus Direct Integration Comes to Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring
Observability
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Prometheus Direct Integration Comes to Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring

A typical Prometheus environment consists of integrations that scrape your applications for four metric types; counters, gauges, summaries, and aggregated histograms. A central server is required to pull each of the endpoint resources and aggregate them.