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CISCO Next Generation Observability Interactive Solution Brief
Observability for AI

Next-Level Observability.
Optimize AI at Scale.

Splunk Observability helps you build trust in AI with deep context and correlation across your entire stack, so you can understand how a performance issue happening anywhere is impacting your business — and optimize AI at scale. Full control of your data means you own your data; no proprietary vendor agents get in the way. Upfront, predictable pricing means you only pay for what you use, with no bill shock at the end of the month.

The Big Picture

Four Concepts. One Cisco Architecture.

Full-stack observability, observability modernization on the Cisco Data Fabric, network observability, and agent observability aren’t four separate products — they’re four capabilities of one platform. Here’s how the demos you’re about to see fit together.

1. Domains 2. Management 3. Data Fabric 4. Correlation 5. AI & Agents 6. Insights
Click Reveal Next Layer to walk the architecture from the bottom up — Domains, then Management, then Data Fabric, then Correlation, then AI & Agents, then Insights.
Insights: Cloud Control — The Unified Operations Front Door
CLOUD CONTROL
One Login
Unified Inventory & Topology
Actions (Correlated Alerts)
AI Assistant
AI Canvas embedded
AI & Agents
Any AI · Cisco LLMs
Any Agents · Cisco Agents · Galileo · AI Defense
Correlation
Intelligent Correlation Engine · MCP · Automation Run Books
Data Fabric
Cisco Data Fabric · Meta Data Catalog · Unified Telemetry · Time Series Data
Management
MicroservicesO11y
3-Tier AppsAppD
EventsITSI
WANThousandEyes
SwitchingCatalyst Center
DatacenterNexus DB
Team MessagingWebEx
Collab. DevicesControl Hub
Contact CenterCCE
OTELSplunk
Security PolicyXDR
Security DevicesSCC
Domains
Apps
Network
Collaboration
Security

There are four concepts on this page we’ll explore — and show you how easy it is to get started with Splunk Observability.

Concept 01 · Full-Stack Observability

See the Business Impact of Problems Across Apps, Infrastructure, and Business Processes.

Deeper business context to solve issues faster with greater precision. Modern incidents span security, network, infrastructure, application, and user behavior simultaneously — looking at one domain at a time produces a confident-but-wrong answer. Splunk Observability correlates all of it in one platform, so teams see the actual root cause and the business impact together.

Live Incident Simulation · PseudoCo Branch 47
Click each domain to see what it sees in isolation

Symptom: Users report slow checkout. 4 monitoring tools are firing. None of them agree on what’s wrong.

🛡️
Security
SCC, AI Defense, Secure Access
🌐
Network
ThousandEyes, Meraki, SD-WAN
📱
Application
AppDynamics, Splunk O11y
🖥️
Infrastructure
Intersight, Nexus Dashboard
⬆ Click a domain above to see its conclusion in isolation.
75%
MTTR reduction with unified cross-domain observability (Apica)
>95%
reduction in mean time to root cause with AI correlation
84%
of organizations pursuing observability tool consolidation (LogicMonitor 2026)
10+
monitoring tools the average enterprise has to reconcile manually
12 hrs
per week wasted chasing data across siloed systems (Forrester)
30%
of breaches go fully undetected by single-domain security tools
Use Cases
What this concept helps you get done
  • Monitor critical business processes & user journeys
  • Troubleshooting & root cause analysis
  • Optimize observability costs
  • Monitor the entire technology stack

Cloud Control · AgenticOps in Action

Sam Ali starts her day with one login. One inventory and topology. One view for alerts. One AI Assistant. And AI Canvas embedded inside Cloud Control — the multiplayer workspace where human operators and AI agents investigate and remediate cross-domain incidents together, grounded in platform data and policy.

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Concept 02 · Observability Modernization on AI Factory

Modernize Your Observability Practice on Top of the Cisco Data Fabric.

AI agents ship apps, configs, and pipelines at machine speed. The sprawl doesn’t stay in the codebase — it lands on GPUs, CPU, memory, and tokens inside the AI Factory. Observability Cloud is native to Cisco AI PODs: see the impact of AI workloads at the hardware layer, before silent failures cascade through the stack.

AI-PoD Telemetry · Infrastructure Impact Simulation
Scale AI activity, then flip observability mode to see the hardware
Modernization Mandate
1 strategic intent
AI Agents · Code Sprawl Engine
12 agents shipping apps, configs, pipelines
Landing on Cisco AI PODs
288 workloads · GPU / CPU / memory / tokens
PilotTeam-scaleEnterprise-wide
Observability: App tier only · Hardware is dark
Legacy 3-tier observability stops at the app. No view into AI-PoD GPU, CPU, memory, or token spend. Silent failures cascade.
87%
GPU Utilization
82%
Memory Utilization
$245
Token Cost / Day
1.8 hrs
Agentic MTTD
No
AI-PoD Visibility
Use Cases
What this concept helps you get done
  • Monitor critical business processes & user journeys
  • Troubleshooting & root cause analysis
  • Optimize observability costs
  • Monitor the entire AI stack

Observability Cloud · Native to Cisco AI PODs

Splunk AI Infrastructure Monitoring built into the AI Factory. The Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector pulls metrics and metadata from NVIDIA GPUs, NVIDIA NIM, Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus, and certified storage — surfaced through purpose-built dashboards. App, agent, and silicon in one pane — with the Cisco Data Fabric and Time Series Foundation Model exposing AI-ready intelligence at any scale.

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Concept 03 · Network Observability

End-to-End Visibility — From Network Paths to Application Performance to End-User Experience.

Co-sell Observability Cloud + ThousandEyes to spot bottlenecks in real time across network paths, application performance, and end-user experience. Cisco is the only vendor that bridges both layers — the insight layer with Cloud Control, and the management layer with ThousandEyes ↔ Observability Cloud.

The Bridge Simulator · Three Ways Cisco Connects Network and App
Toggle each Cisco integration point and watch the war room shrink.
NETWORK DOMAIN APPLICATION DOMAIN 2 1
Cross-domain visibility: 15%The bridge is out. Teams see silos, not systems.
3h 20m
Time to Root Cause
6
Cross-Team Escalations
15
Teams in the War Room
Recurring
“Network Innocence” Proved
67%
of organizations take 3+ hours to determine the root cause of an app-related issue — a third take 6+ hours. AppDynamics / Cisco
15 · 5–6 hrs
average number of people and duration of an IT war room to resolve a single incident. NETSCOUT industry research
40–50%
faster remediation when observability is unified vs. fragmented multi-vendor stacks. Gartner
0 · 99.998%
Cisco IT’s own result deploying Splunk + ThousandEyes + Catalyst/Meraki: 0 major incidents (from 3–4/quarter) and automation handles 99.998% of 4M daily alerts. Cisco on Cisco
Use Cases
What this concept helps you get done
  • Pinpoint network impact on app performance
  • Network device performance monitoring (NPM)

Network-to-Application Integration · Live Walkthrough

Follow a single incident from Cloud Control down into Observability Cloud. See the same signal flow through the Insights layer and the Management layer, with correlated ThousandEyes network telemetry surfacing beside application traces — one story, one team, one system.

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Concept 04 · Agent Observability

Build Trust in AI by Evaluating, Observing, and Controlling Agent Behavior and Token Costs.

Accurate, low-cost evaluations and guardrails to build trust in AI. LLMs and autonomous agents introduce failure modes traditional monitoring cannot see — hallucinations, drift, runaway token spend, wrong-but-confident actions that return a 200 OK. Splunk Observability closes that gap with automated AI evaluation, programmable guardrails, Luna SLMs (proprietary small language models that evaluate at 95% lower cost than LLM-as-a-judge), prompt-level visibility, real-time AI tokenomics, and AI infrastructure monitoring for the underlying GPUs and vector databases.

Agent Fleet Simulation
Toggle observability and scale the fleet
AI Observability: OFF
Agents run unmonitored. Failures look like successes. Issues only surface after customers complain.
Pilot (10)Team (500)F500 fleet (150,000)
Legend Active agent (operating normally) Silent failure (observability OFF — undetected) Caught failure (observability ON — contained)
200
Active agents
24
Silent failures
$8,400
Wasted tokens / day
9.2 hrs
Time to detect
150K+
agents the average Fortune 500 enterprise is projected to manage by 2028
60%
of software teams will use AI eval and observability platforms by 2028 (Gartner, up from 18% in 2025)
40%+
of agentic AI projects risk failure without proper governance and visibility
6x
higher production success rate for AI agents with strong eval frameworks
97%
lower cost vs. LLM-as-judge with Galileo's Luna-2 small evaluator models
32%
of orgs cite quality as the top barrier to agent deployment (observability is the answer)
Use Cases
What this concept helps you get done
  • Evaluate agent behavior to ensure accuracy
  • Monitor the entire AI stack — from agent to GPUs
  • Optimize token costs (tokenomics)
  • Prevent inaccurate and harmful outputs (guardrails)

Galileo · Agent Observability Platform

AI evaluation for agents and LLMs from dev to production, programmable runtime guardrails that intercept harmful/biased/off-topic responses in milliseconds, Luna SLMs that deliver superior evaluation performance at 95% lower cost than LLM-as-a-judge, prompt-level visibility to spot hallucinations and confidence drops, real-time AI tokenomics (cost-per-interaction and token usage), and AI infrastructure monitoring for the GPUs and vector databases underneath.

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Experience It Live

Four Demos. One Conversation.

Cross-launch into any of the four demo environments to see the concepts in action.

Concept 01 · Full-Stack Observability

Cloud Control

AgenticOps in action: one login, one topology, one alert view, and AI Canvas (embedded in Cloud Control) where operators and agents resolve cross-domain incidents together.

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Concept 02 · Observability Modernization on AI Factory

Observability Cloud

Native to Cisco AI PODs. Splunk AI Infrastructure Monitoring exposes GPU, CPU, memory, and tokenization cost as agents ship code at machine speed — from app, to agent, to silicon.

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Concept 03 · Network Observability

Network-to-Application Integration

Walk a single incident from Cloud Control into Observability Cloud. Correlated ThousandEyes telemetry surfaces beside APM traces — the end of “network innocence” escalation loops.

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Concept 04 · Agent Observability

Galileo

Agent traces, evaluation metrics, and runtime Protect guardrails that stop hallucinations, off-policy actions, and silent failures before they reach customers.

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