Cisco Taps Splunk for Tokenomics-Driven AI Visibility

Cisco has made significant strides in providing enterprise AI usage visibility through its partnership with Splunk. The integration of Galileo's technology into Splunk Observability Cloud allows users to track usage, costs, and productivity by team or user, and combine spend across different vendors in one view.

Splunk Agent Observability has been expanded to provide tokenomics tracking within both Splunk Observability Cloud and Cisco Cloud Control. The capability predicts final billing before the cycle ends through the use of the Cisco Deep Time Series Model (CDTSM) tool.

Kamal Hathi, SVP and GM for Splunk, explained that AI costs were becoming critical for customers, and that the company is delivering a solution to optimize AI token spend. He noted that the integration is designed to be low-lift and non-intrusive, requiring minimal effort from customers.