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.

Configuring Okta SAML Single Sign On with Splunk Cloud - Using the Okta Splunk Cloud App
Tips & Tricks
11 Minute Read

Configuring Okta SAML Single Sign On with Splunk Cloud - Using the Okta Splunk Cloud App

A step-by-step in integrating Okta SAML to your Splunk Cloud instance using the Okta Splunk Cloud App
Understanding The Causes of Negative Customer Experience
Observability
3 Minute Read

Understanding The Causes of Negative Customer Experience

Diving into data to discover the causes of a negative customer experience
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
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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