Splunk survey finds AI agent monitoring lags deployment urgency
Cisco's sixth Splunk observability survey of 2,050 IT and engineering respondents finds agent oversight, AI cost control and security collaboration gaps.
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Cisco released the Splunk State of Observability 2026 report, surveying 2,050 IT operations and engineering professionals across 10 countries. It found that urgency to deploy AI agents outpaces monitoring ability: 87% call AI monitoring a priority, but 54% lack clear business outcomes tied to it and 55% say they cannot control AI costs.
Splunk survey finds AI agent monitoring lags deployment urgency ↗Cisco's sixth Splunk observability survey of 2,050 IT and engineering respondents finds agent oversight, AI cost control and security collaboration gaps.
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