Cisco has announced its intent to acquire Galileo Technologies, Inc., an AI observability company building tools to make artificial intelligence more reliable, transparent, and safe.
The move comes as organisations worldwide accelerate their adoption of agentic AI — autonomous systems capable of executing complex tasks alongside human teams. As these systems become embedded in core business processes, from software development to customer support, the need to monitor and validate their outputs has grown increasingly urgent.
Founded to address what its team describes as one of AI’s hardest problems — trust — Galileo gives engineering teams real-time visibility into multi-agent systems throughout the full AI agent development lifecycle. Its platform detects failures before they reach end users, flags hallucinations and bias, enforces guardrails, and tracks cost and performance metrics. The company has positioned itself as an industry standard for enterprise AI observability.
“To unlock the full potential of AI, it’s essential to help ensure a foundation of transparency and accuracy,” Cisco said in announcing the deal.
Galileo will be integrated into Cisco’s Splunk Observability portfolio, strengthening its AI Agent Monitoring capabilities within Splunk Observability Cloud. The combined platform is designed to give enterprises a single tool to oversee every stage of AI development — from prompt optimisation and model selection through to production monitoring.
The acquisition is expected to close in the fourth quarter of Cisco’s fiscal year 2026. Until then, both companies will continue to operate independently.
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