Overview
SAN JOSE, Calif. – May 22, 2026 – Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO)
Today, Cisco completed its acquisition of Galileo Technologies, Inc., a privately owned enterprise software company headquartered in Burlingame, California. Galileo has developed a market-leading AI agent observability and evaluation platform that provides real-time observability and protection for multi-AI agent systems across the agent development lifecycle, from finetuning in pre-production, to evaluation and optimization in production and maintenance.
Galileo’s team brings exceptional depth of AI engineering and research, with deep domain expertise in AI observability, evaluation engineering, and multi-agent system development. This knowledge will help further strengthen Splunk’s observability solutions to meet the growing demands of our customers.
The acquisition of Galileo will help accelerate AI Agent Monitoring in Splunk Observability Cloud by enabling customers to more comprehensively observe, measure, and protect their AI systems throughout the agent development lifecycle.
FAQs
Q: What is Cisco announcing?
A: Today, May 22, 2026, Cisco completed its acquisition of Galileo Technologies, Inc., a privately owned enterprise software company headquartered in Burlingame, California.
Q: Why is now the right time to acquire Galileo?
A: Cisco is delivering upon its vision of Splunk Observability Cloud, and this acquisition helps to accelerate the delivery of platform value for our customers.
Q: What product gaps is Cisco trying to address with this acquisition?
A: Cisco plans to incorporate Galileo’s capabilities across the Splunk Observability portfolio, further expanding our offerings to meet the growing demands of our customers.
Customer Experience
Galileo customers should continue to use the existing process for support on installed Galileo products. Cisco will notify you in advance of any change to the support process.
Cisco customers should continue to use the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) for technical support on Cisco products. For more information about opening a technical support case and for regional TAC telephone numbers, refer to Cisco Worldwide Support Contacts.
Customers and Partners
Galileo Customers and Partners:
If you are an existing customer or partner of Galileo and have questions about your product or service, please continue to contact your existing Galileo representative.
Cisco Customers and Partners:
If you are an existing customer or partner of Cisco and have questions about your product or services, please continue to contact your existing Cisco representative.
Better Together
Galileo will help accelerate AI Agent Monitoring in Splunk Observability Cloud by enabling customers to more comprehensively observe, measure, and protect their AI systems throughout the agent development lifecycle.