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.

Serving It Up with AWS and Splunk: AWS Serverless Application Repository Now Available
Tips & Tricks
4 Minute Read

Serving It Up with AWS and Splunk: AWS Serverless Application Repository Now Available

Splunker Nicolas Stone walks you through ingesting and visualizing live data from AWS into Splunk using serverless applications
Effectively-Once Semantics in Apache Pulsar
Observability
8 Minute Read

Effectively-Once Semantics in Apache Pulsar

"Exactly-once" is a controversial term in the messaging landscape. In this post we'll offer a detailed look at effectively-once delivery semantics in Apache Pulsar and how this is achieved without sacrificing performance.
Use Investigation Workbench to Reduce Time to Contain and Time to Remediate
Security
2 Minute Read

Use Investigation Workbench to Reduce Time to Contain and Time to Remediate

The latest version of Splunk Enterprise Security v 5.0 introduces Investigation Workbench, which streamlines investigations and accelerates incident response
Cyclical Statistical Forecasts and Anomalies - Part 2
Platform
6 Minute Read

Cyclical Statistical Forecasts and Anomalies - Part 2

Get brilliant alerts over big data using some Splunk goodness such as summary indexes or data model accelerations to operate forecasts at greater scale
Cyclical Statistical Forecasts and Anomalies - Part 1
Platform
9 Minute Read

Cyclical Statistical Forecasts and Anomalies - Part 1

Using the Machine Learning Toolkit to build a basic forecasting, thresholding, and alerting mechanism to apply to nearly any type of time series metric
Hands on Lab: Sandboxing with Splunk with Docker (from .conf2017)
Tips & Tricks
8 Minute Read

Hands on Lab: Sandboxing with Splunk with Docker (from .conf2017)

Accept it. You're afraid to take risks with Splunk. So was I. That is, until Docker changed my life. Join the cult and learn how to rapidly create disposable Splunk sandboxes in mere minutes!