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.

Fix now available: Splunk and the Heartbleed vulnerability
Security
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Fix now available: Splunk and the Heartbleed vulnerability

Splunking Heroku
Tips & Tricks
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Splunking Heroku

Cisco Security Suite 3.0.1 – Now with ISE
Security
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Cisco Security Suite 3.0.1 – Now with ISE

Search Command> stats, eventstats and streamstats
Tips & Tricks
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Search Command> stats, eventstats and streamstats

Advance past “super grep” searching & learn; Web log example of 5 events shows how stats, eventstats & streamstats commands work & ways they differ step-by-step.
Using Splunk as a data store for developers
Tips & Tricks
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Using Splunk as a data store for developers

Splunk Coalesce Command
Tips & Tricks
2 Minute Read

Splunk Coalesce Command

Logging standards & labels for machine data/logs are inconsistent in mixed environments. Splunk Coalesce command solves the issue by normalizing field names.