Splunk, a publicly owned company headquartered in the United States, is a subsidiary of Cisco. It employs approximately 8,740 individuals and reported $4.2B in revenue as of 2024. The company specializes in software development, providing customers with a unified security and observability platform.
On September 18, 2026, Cisco announced new security-focused capabilities leveraging Splunk, emphasizing AI-powered agents to help organizations safely and cost-efficiently scale AI where their data resides. Earlier the same day, Splunk debuted numerous new products and capabilities at its .Conf26 event, many centered on AI agentic security and observability, positioning the company as a data platform for building trustworthy AI systems. Also on September 18, news highlighted Cisco's earlier acquisition of Galileo, a company specializing in evaluation observability and real-time guardrail capabilities for multi-agent systems, intended to address the AI trust gap. Splunk further contributed to AI management by open-sourcing its Token Meter tool for application developers. This tool reads local AI coding-agent logs to display live token consumption, estimated costs, output speed, tool activity, and session performance, enabling developers to compare costs across agents and set budget alerts. Previously, on September 18, Splunk's head of business stated that companies grapple with significant token spending without understanding returns, underscoring the necessity of properly overseeing how artificial intelligence consumes tokens to improve efficiency.
Splunk's customers primarily consist of software Development and telecoms companies. Examples of Splunk's customers include Autodesk, Nice and Vodafone.
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