Next-Level Observability.
Built for the AI Era.
Three core concepts that explain why Cisco Cloud Control, Cisco Observability Cloud, and Galileo are the foundation customers need to operate at AI scale — with cross-domain insight, predictable data economics, and trusted oversight of every LLM and agent in production.
Why a single-domain view creates dangerous blind spots — and what unified correlation actually unlocks.
02Why traditional 3-tier observability breaks at AI scale — and Cisco’s dual investment in Cloud Observability and the Cisco Data Fabric.
03The economics of organizing data once, in the Cisco Data Fabric, so AI doesn’t pay to rediscover it on every query.
04When AI builds the enterprise, who watches the AI? Why Cisco acquired Galileo, and why this is now non-negotiable.
Single-Domain Views Create Dangerous Blind Spots.
Modern incidents span security, network, infrastructure, application, and user behavior simultaneously. Looking at one domain at a time produces a confident-but-wrong answer. Correlated views surface the actual root cause.
Symptom: Users report slow checkout. 4 monitoring tools are firing. None of them agree on what’s wrong.
Cisco 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 C3 — the multiplayer workspace where human operators and AI agents investigate and remediate cross-domain incidents together, grounded in platform data and policy.
AI Doesn’t Replace Workloads. It Multiplies Them.
AI operates out of human insight — then generates traditional workloads at machine speed. Apps, configs, pipelines, infrastructure. Legacy 3-tier observability can’t keep up. Modernize, or it breaks.
Cisco Cloud Observability · The AI-First Platform
OpenTelemetry-native, full-stack, NoSample tracing. Agentic AI for autonomous detection. AI Agent + Infrastructure Monitoring, with the Cisco Data Fabric exposing AI-ready intelligence powered by the Time Series Foundation Model.
If You Hand AI Raw Data, You Pay for It on Every Query.
Today's default AI architecture — point the model at every API and MCP server — forces the model to rediscover, gather, and correlate data on every single call. Costs scale with environment size. A tiered data strategy in the Cisco Data Fabric shifts that work upstream, once.
Direct API / MCP Access Status quo
Cisco Data Fabric (Tiered) Proposed
Intelligent Correlation · AI Correlation Fabric in Action
Walk through how the Intelligent Correlation Engine pulls data sources, correlation, and audit trail out of the AI “black box” — making the model the only opacity left, and now an auditable one. Watch a query run with and without the correlation fabric.
When Agents Build the Enterprise, Observability Becomes Non-Negotiable.
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. Cisco acquired Galileo in April 2026 specifically to close this gap.
Galileo · Agentic Ops Platform
End-to-end agent tracing, graph views of decision flows and tool calls, specialized metrics (Action Completion, Tool Selection Quality, Reasoning Coherence, Agent Flow), and runtime Protect guardrails that catch harmful or off-policy outputs before they reach users.
Four Concepts. One Cisco Architecture.
Cross-domain visibility, observability modernization, organized data economics, and agentic trust aren’t four separate products — they’re four layers of the same architecture. Here’s how the demos you’re about to see fit together.
Four Demos. One Conversation.
Cross-launch into any of the four demo environments to see the concepts in action.
Concept 01 · Cross-Domain Insights
Cisco Cloud Control
AgenticOps in action: one login, one topology, one alert view, and AI Canvas (embedded in C3) where operators and agents resolve cross-domain incidents together.
Launch C3 DemoConcept 02 · Modernization
Cisco Cloud Observability
The AI-first platform: OpenTelemetry-native, NoSample tracing, AI Agent + Infrastructure Monitoring, with the Cisco Data Fabric exposing AI-ready intelligence at any scale.
Launch Cloud Observability Demo · URL TBDConcept 03 · Tokenomics
Intelligent Correlation
See AI query volume drop and quality rise when the Cisco Data Fabric pre-tiers data, exposes correlated relationships, and gives the model an audit trail.
Launch Intelligent Correlation Demo · URL TBDConcept 04 · Agentic Ops
Galileo
Agent traces, evaluation metrics, and runtime Protect guardrails that stop hallucinations, off-policy actions, and silent failures before they reach customers.
Launch Galileo Demo · URL TBD