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.

Tips & Tricks

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Dashboard Digest Series: Episode 7 – Iron Splunk

In Episode 7 of the Dashboard Digest Series, Splunker Stephen Luedtke uses Splunk 7.1 to create an easy way to track his exercise and training stats

Security

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Boss of the SOC (BOTS) Investigation Workshop for Splunk

You've played BOTS with Splunk, now learn the how it all happened? This post discusses a new tutorial app that you can run on the BOTS v1 dataset to learn more about BOTS and have an educational workshop at home (or office)

Observability

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Ingest Nagios Alarms into Splunk ITSI Event Analytics

This post describes the steps to ingest Nagios Core alerts into ITSI Notable Events Review.

Observability

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Ingest Netcool Alerts into Splunk ITSI Event Analytics

Describing the steps to ingest IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus alerts into IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) Notable Events Review.

Observability

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Using Apache Pulsar as a Message Queue

Though typically seen as a pub-sub messaging system, Apache Pulsar's powerful durable storage capabilities make it ideal as a message queue

Platform

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Custom Anomaly Detection with Splunk IT Service Intelligence and Machine Learning Toolkit v3.2 - Part 2

Part 2 of a two-part series providing a detailed and technical walkthrough around customizing a custom Splunk ITSI Machine Learning workflow