Cisco is to acquire AI observability firm Galileo Technologies to "supercharge" Splunk capabilities.

In a blog regarding the tie up, Kamal Hathi, SVP and GM of Cisco's Splunk Business Unit, framed the deal as safeguarding agentic AI to "help ensure a foundation of transparency and accuracy," calling Galileo "a dynamic player in the observability for AI space that is helping make AI more reliable, trustworthy, safe, and observable."

"Galileo was purpose-built to solve one of the hardest and most consequential problems in AI: Trust," explained Hathi. "From day one, its platform has given AI teams the tools to evaluate AI quality, detect AI failures before they reach users, and continuously improve AI behavior in production – turning observability from a nice-to-have into a core pillar of AI development. Galileo’s market-leading platform provides real-time observability and guardrails for multi-agent systems across the agent development life cycle and has been adopted across the enterprise as the industry standard for instilling trust in their AI agents."

Galileo is expected to fortify the Splunk Observability portfolio and augment current AI Agent Monitoring capabilities in Splunk Observability Cloud. Customers are promised real-time visibility and protection into the full agent development life cycle (ADLC), with a "single platform to instrument every stage of the ADLC with the rigor that enterprises demand," spanning production monitoring, observability, and enforcing guardrails.

This will add to existing features such as Splunk AI, which offers AI assistants, embedded machine learning (ML) features, and a model context protocol (MCP) server for connecting agents to Splunk data.

Galileo history

Galileo Technologies was formed in 2021 by Google alums Vikram Chatterji and Yash Sheth, and former Uber AI and Apple employee Atindriyo Sanyal.

The firm held a $45 million Series B funding round in 2024, as led by Scale Venture Partners, with participation from Databricks Ventures, ServiceNow, and Citi Ventures. Its partners include Nvidia and Hewlett Packard (HP), while customers include the likes of NTT and Comcast.

The firm has some history with Cisco, with Galileo supporting Cisco's security-leaning Agntcy agentic AI project.

Galileo's acquisition is expected to close during the fourth quarter of Cisco’s 2026 fiscal year. Financial details were not disclosed.