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.

Syslog-ng and HEC: Scalable Aggregated Data Collection in Splunk
Tips & Tricks
9 Minute Read

Syslog-ng and HEC: Scalable Aggregated Data Collection in Splunk

Best practices for scalable aggregated data collection
Assigning Role Based Permissions in Splunk Enterprise Security
Security
2 Minute Read

Assigning Role Based Permissions in Splunk Enterprise Security

Learn how to add a new role in Enterprise Security and apply capabilities to it
Splunking Microsoft Azure Network Watcher Data
Tips & Tricks
3 Minute Read

Splunking Microsoft Azure Network Watcher Data

How to stream AWS CloudWatch Logs to Splunk (Hint: it’s easier than you think)
Tips & Tricks
7 Minute Read

How to stream AWS CloudWatch Logs to Splunk (Hint: it’s easier than you think)

See step-by-step process of AWS Lambda streaming of CloudWatch Logs into Splunk for real-time security analysis, visualization, troubleshooting.
It’s cold outside – A year’s worth of data from my pellet heating unit!
Tips & Tricks
4 Minute Read

It’s cold outside – A year’s worth of data from my pellet heating unit!

Data in Splunk pellet consumption study, with built-in analytics & reporting through WebAPI, showed optimized & monitored improvements & calculated savings.
Analyzing BotNets with Suricata & Machine Learning
Platform
3 Minute Read

Analyzing BotNets with Suricata & Machine Learning

Suricata open source threat detection engine data & Splunk machine learning toolkit (MLTK) helps intrusion detection and intrusion prevention (inline).