By Beth Pariseau
Publication Date: 2026-04-13 10:59:00
Cisco will fill an important part of its AI observability portfolio with its acquisition of Galileo, but many enterprise organizations are grappling with who should primarily use such a tool.
Galileo, founded in 2021, markets products spanning AI management categories, including model and output evaluation, production guardrails, and monitoring and observability. Terms of the deal with Cisco were not disclosed; the acquisition is expected to close in the fiscal fourth quarter for Cisco, between April 25 and July 25. Until then, the companies will continue to operate independently. Once the deal is finalized, Galileo will be integrated with the Cisco-Splunk Observability portfolio, according to a company blog post.
“Teams need visibility across the AI stack beyond signals like latency and errors,” according to the post. ”Observability must evaluate issues like hallucinations and bias, security metrics to…
