Cisco To Snap Up AI Observability Startup Galileo Technologies To Expand Splunk Platform

Cisco says it will acquire Galileo Technologies Inc. to add agentic AI observability and protection capabilities to its Splunk platform.

Cisco Systems is picking up AI observability specialist Galileo Technologies Inc. to power up its Cisco’s Splunk Observability portfolio, the tech giant revealed on Thursday afternoon.

Galileo Technologies is bringing AI agent observability and protection capabilities to the Splunk Observability platform. The upstart’s technology will give Cisco visibility into how AI agents behave, perform, and introduce risk across development, testing, and production, according to Cisco.

Financial terms of the deal are not being disclosed, and the acquisition is expected to close in the fourth quarter of Cisco’s fiscal year 2026, which ends in July.

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Galileo’s AI observability and evaluation platform gives AI teams the tools to evaluate, monitor, and protect GenAI applications and agents at enterprise scale, according to the Burlingame, Calif.-based company.

Galileo gives IT teams a single platform to instrument every stage of the agent development lifecycle, Cisco said.

“We are thrilled to announce Cisco’s intent to acquire Galileo Technologies Inc., 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 … Galileo’s market-leading platform provides real-time observability and guardrails for multi-agent systems across the agent development lifecycle and has been adopted across the enterprise as the industry standard for instilling trust in their AI agents,” said Kamal Hathi, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco’s Splunk business unit, in his blog post on the planned acquisition.

Galileo was founded in 2021 by entrepreneurs from the likes of Google, Uber AI and Apple. The company’s platform is used by AI teams from startups to Fortune 50 enterprises, including Comcast, HP and NTT, according to Galileo.

Galileo’s most recent Series B funding round brought in $45 million, led by Scale Venture Partners in 2024, bringing the company’s total funding to $68.1 million, according to Crunchbase.

Before the close of the transaction, Galileo will continue operating independently, the companies said.