Cisco buys Galileo to strengthen Splunk’s agentic monitoring capabilities – SiliconANGLE

Cisco buys Galileo to strengthen Splunk’s agentic monitoring capabilities – SiliconANGLE

By @SiliconANGLE
Publication Date: 2026-04-10 01:19:00

Cisco Systems Inc. said today it’s acquiring the artificial intelligence-native observability startup Galileo Technologies Inc. in order to make “agentic workforces” more trustworthy and reliable.

Galileo is a developer of tools for observing and evaluating AI models, enabling companies to monitor multiagent systems in real time and apply guardrails to ensure the accuracy of their work. The platform has been widely adopted by enterprises over the past couple of years for the way it instills trust in AI agents, and those capabilities will soon be added to Cisco’s Splunk observability platform.

In a blog post, Kamal Hathi, senior vice president and general manager of Splunk, said Galileo was built to solve the problem of trust in AI. “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…