Post by Jeetu Patel

Some exciting news to share! Cisco is announcing that we intend to acquire Galileo. I'm thrilled to welcome Vikram Chatterji, Atindriyo Sanyal, Yash Sheth, and the entire Galileo team and their exceptional expertise to the Cisco team. The work they've been doing on AI agent observability and evaluation is fantastic and we can't wait to combine their innovation with Splunk and the entire Cisco portfolio. At RSAC last month, I made the case that we need to reimagine safety and security for the new agentic workforce. Bringing concepts developed for human security, like background checks, identity, and policy enforcement into the agentic world. Well, the same idea applies to observability and evaluation: we need to reimagine performance management for that same new set of agentic co-workers. This is where Galileo comes in. They've built a market-leading platform for real-time observability and protection of multi-AI agent systems — across the full development lifecycle, from pre-production fine-tuning through production monitoring and optimization. Their capabilities will be integrated into AI Agent Monitoring in Splunk Observability Cloud. The observability problem and the security problem are the same problem. Traditional observability was built for deterministic software. AI agents aren't deterministic. Latency metrics won't tell you if your agent is drifting from its intended behavior, consuming tokens inefficiently, or producing outputs that create compliance exposure. You need visibility into quality, cost, behavioral patterns, and security signals…all at once, in real time. Most organizations running AI agents have two parallel efforts underway. Security teams monitoring threats. Operations teams monitoring performance, quality, and cost. They're generating overlapping telemetry, running separate investigations, and missing signals that only become visible when you connect the two data streams. Organizations that unify those two views will catch problems faster, build a richer picture of how their models actually behave, and improve their agents systematically. Allowing you to move from pilot to production with confidence. That's the platform Cisco is building with Splunk, and Galileo accelerates it. That's what this acquisition is about. And we'll be sharing a lot more about our broader vision for security, observability, and a common data platform for the AI era at Cisco Live in June. Hope to see you there.