Cisco Observability

Unparalleled visibility across owned and unowned networks, infrastructure, AI, and any app—native or third-party—so issues that matter most get resolved faster.

Observability that only Cisco can deliver

Deeper business context

Correlate app, infrastructure, and network health with outcomes to optimize performance for impact.

Detect earlier, fix faster

Agentic AI diagnoses business-impacting issues across any environment or network—fewer war rooms.

Control your data and costs

Manage growing telemetry volume to keep what matters, pay only for what you use, and cut technical debt.

What’s new in Cisco Observability

Dashboard showing key indicators including Access, Endpoint, Network, Identity, Audit, and Threat findings, plus trends over time, urgency, and sources.

AI observability

Monitor performance, quality, cost, and security of your large language model (LLM) and agentic apps.

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Transformative data fabric

Make it easier to leverage your proprietary machine data for training AI models.

What you can do with Cisco Observability

Troubleshooting and root-cause analysis

Learn about using AI-powered detection, diagnosis, and response to address performance problems across your apps and infrastructure.

Monitoring AI applications and infrastructure

Monitor the health and performance of your AI application stack, including agents, LLMs, and AI infrastructure.

Monitoring critical business processes

See the impact of performance problems on business processes (checkout flows, order fulfillment, loan processing, etc.) and KPIs.

Observability products

Monitoring dashboard with a service dependency map, Service Request and Errors, and Service and Dependency Latency graphs, and a View Trace ID search bar.

Splunk Observability

Enjoy unified visibility and AI-assisted troubleshooting across applications and environments. 

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Cisco ThousandEyes platform

Assure digital experiences across owned and unowned networks.

Observability capabilities

Application performance monitoring

Optimize application performance anywhere: cloud, hybrid, or self-managed infrastructure.

Network observability and assurance

Assure every digital experience across owned and unowned networks.

Infrastructure monitoring

Optimize hybrid cloud performance with instant visibility and real-time, correlated alerts.

Real user monitoring

Pinpoint issues that affect customers, by using end-to-end visibility from browser or mobile app to back-end services.

Synthetics

Proactively find and fix performance issues across user flows, business transactions, and APIs to deliver superior digital experiences.

Log analytics

Start investigating application and infrastructure logs already stored in the Splunk platform in minutes for the "why" behind software behavior. Search, filter, and analyze log data at scale in an intuitive, code-free interface.

Telemetry pipeline management

Streamline your observability data and reduce monitoring expenses without sacrificing visibility or performance.

Database monitoring

Pinpoint performance bottlenecks that matter most and fix them fast with AI.

Application security

Detect, prioritize, and respond to critical application vulnerabilities with runtime application security within applications.

SAP monitoring

Make sense of growing complexity with AI-driven monitoring and predictive analytics for SAP.

Observability for AI

Monitor the performance, quality, security, and cost of your AI application stack, from AI agents and LLMs to AI infrastructure. 

AIOps and event intelligence

Reduce alert noise across domains and find root causes faster with intelligent event correlation.

Resources

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Free trial

Splunk Observability Cloud free trial

Try Splunk Observability Cloud free for 14 days. No credit card required.

Splunk product tours and demos

Get an in-depth look at workflows and features.         

ThousandEyes free trial platform

Get actionable insights into your critical customer and employee-facing applications and services with ThousandEyes.

Training and certification

Get the most out of Splunk with efficient courses, tailored learning paths, and training for individuals and teams.

ThousandEyes platform resource center

Learn best practices for network monitoring, performance management, and SaaS troubleshooting.

FAQs

You can find support for Cisco Observability products through the Splunk support hub, which provides product-specific resources, documentation, downloads, and expert assistance. 

The Cisco Community is a hub where you can connect with peers and Cisco specialists to ask for help, share experiences, and build your professional network. In the communities, you'll find information related to Splunk observability products and ThousandEyes platform observability products.

Cisco Services provide expert guidance to help you plan, design, implement, operate, and optimize your IT environment as well as AI-powered and expert-backed support to enable proactive and predictive IT operations. 

Cisco offers learning options for a wide range of levels and learning styles. Cisco Networking Academy provides beginner-friendly content and offers online and in-person options. Cisco U. provides product, certification, and skills- training options online for all levels, from associate to expert. The Cisco Learning Partners program provides online and in-person instructor-led training for enterprises and individuals. 

Explore the Cisco end-of-sale and end-of-life products page for the full list of products we no longer sell. You can also seek feedback from the Cisco Community about end-of-life topics and options for what to do next.

Splunk was acquired by Cisco in 2024. Since that time, Splunk has been fully integrated for full-stack observability, application monitoring, and security analytics within Cisco’s portfolio.

ThousandEyes was acquired by Cisco in 2020. Today, Cisco ThousandEyes is fully integrated within Cisco’s portfolio as a monitoring platform that provides deep visibility into the performance and availability of applications and networking. It offers real-time insights and enables faster identification and resolution of issues that affect digital services.

Yes, Cisco Nexus Dashboard integrates data from Splunk and ThousandEyes solutions for unified visibility and troubleshooting. This customizable dashboard provides a single view of the health and inventory status of managed devices, consolidating real-time status and metrics visibility in one place and enabling operations and observability across your global infrastructure.

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