Cisco plans to acquire Galileo Technologies, an AI observability startup, in a move designed to deepen Splunk’s ability to monitor and govern AI systems as enterprises push agentic AI into production.
“Galileo was purpose-built to solve one of the hardest and most consequential problems in AI: Trust,” wrote Kamal Hathi, senior VP and GM, for Splunk, a Cisco company in a post announcing the acquisition.
Terms were not disclosed, and Cisco said the deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2026.
Cisco framed the acquisition as a way to address what it sees as a growing gap in AI operations. The company said traditional observability tools that measure uptime, latency and errors do not give enterprises enough visibility into AI quality, failures and guardrails. Hathi said Galileo’s platform helps fill that need across the AI agent development lifecycle.
Galileo will strengthen Splunk’s observability portfolio and expand its AI Agent Monitoring capabilities inside Splunk Observability Cloud.
The company is pitching the deal around trust: better visibility into hallucinations, bias, security risk, cost and usage, along with earlier-stage insight into prompt optimization, model selection, evaluation and production monitoring.
In 2024, Cisco acquired Splunk for $28 billion, a deal Cisco said at the time was aimed at strengthening its position in security and observability by combining network data with advanced analytics.
