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.

Stream Your AWS Services Metrics to Splunk
Platform
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Stream Your AWS Services Metrics to Splunk

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced the launch of CloudWatch Metric Streams. Cloudwatch Streams can stream metrics from a number of different AWS resources using Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to target destinations. What this means for current Splunk customers is they now have the option of either using the Splunk add-on of AWS to poll metrics or to make use of this new service and let Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose push metrics to a Splunk HEC endpoint, and reduce their latency by anywhere between 5 to 10 minutes.
Find the Fingerprints and Traces of Threats with Splunk at RSAC 2021
Security
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Find the Fingerprints and Traces of Threats with Splunk at RSAC 2021

Splunk's heading to RSAC 2021, are you? Take a peak at our upcoming sessions and don't forget to tune into our CEO Doug Merritt's keynote when he takes the RSAC main stage.
Boss of Ops and O11y (BOO) Global Events Update
Observability
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Boss of Ops and O11y (BOO) Global Events Update

Join Splunk for our Boss of the Ops and O11y competition, where you'll race against the clock (and your peers) to handle simulated IT incidents with real-world data and use Splunk's Observability portfolio to answer the tough questions engineers and analysts face everyday.
Splunk SOAR Playbooks: Suspicious Email Domain Enrichment
Security
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Splunk SOAR Playbooks: Suspicious Email Domain Enrichment

This playbook focuses specifically on domain names contained in the ingested email, and it uses Cisco Umbrella Investigate to add the risk score, risk status, and domain category to the event in Splunk SOAR.
Announcing the General Availability of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM)
Observability
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Announcing the General Availability of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM)

Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM), now generally available, leverages open source and OpenTelemetry standardization to help SREs and on-call engineers troubleshoot customer-facing issues faster, and optimize end-user experience.
Conquer Complexity at Any Scale With the New Splunk Observability Cloud
Observability
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Conquer Complexity at Any Scale With the New Splunk Observability Cloud

Announcing the new Splunk Observability Cloud, bringing together the world’s best-in-class solutions for infrastructure monitoring, application performance management, digital experience monitoring, synthetic monitoring, log investigation and incident response.