AI agents are everywhere right now. Every enterprise is deploying them, experimenting with them, and quietly panicking about what they’re actually doing behind the scenes. WSO2 just launched the solution nobody knew they were desperately waiting for.

On May 6, 2026, WSO2 announced the beta launch of WSO2 Agent Manager — an open control plane that gives enterprises a unified way to identify, govern, secure, and scale AI agents across any environment. And it couldn’t have come at a better time.

WSO2 Agent Manager — Overview

Detail	Info
Product	WSO2 Agent Manager
Launch Stage	Beta (GA in June 2026)
License	Apache 2.0 (Open Source)
Problem Solved	Agent sprawl, governance gaps, compliance risk
Supported Frameworks	LangGraph, CrewAI, Ballerina
Open Standards	OpenTelemetry, OpenAPI, MCP
Award Won	Best Innovation in Open Source AI — AI TechAwards 2026
WSO2 Founded	2005
Annual Recurring Revenue	USD 100M+

The Problem Nobody Is Talking About — But Everyone Is Facing

Here’s the uncomfortable truth. According to Gartner, more than 40% of agentic AI projects are expected to be cancelled by 2027 — killed by rising costs, unclear value, and a near-total lack of risk controls. Enterprises are racing to deploy AI agents without a proper framework to govern, monitor, or even identify what those agents are doing.

WSO2 calls this “agent sprawl” — a growing tangle of autonomous agents running across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments with inconsistent controls and fragmented tooling. It’s the enterprise IT nightmare of the decade, and it’s happening right now in organisations worldwide.

WSO2 Agent Manager steps in as the central system of record for all agents — making them visible, accountable, and controllable without forcing teams to slow down their innovation.

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What WSO2 Agent Manager Actually Does?

Think of it as an air traffic control tower for your AI agents. The platform brings six critical capabilities together in one place — federated management across any environment, strong agent identity and access delegation, centralised governance with policy guardrails, end-to-end observability and tracing, a secure Kubernetes-native runtime, and an open framework-agnostic foundation that plays well with leading tools like LangGraph and CrewAI.

As Rania Khalaf, Chief AI Officer at WSO2, put it — AI agents are powerful because they’re autonomous, but that’s also precisely what makes them so difficult to control. Agent Manager transforms agents from invisible background processes into identified, governed, accountable entities that enterprises can actually trust at scale.

Artificial intelligence governance is fast becoming as important as AI capability itself — and WSO2 is building the infrastructure layer that makes responsible enterprise AI possible.

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Open Source, No Lock-In, Full Control

One of the most refreshing aspects of this launch is its commitment to openness. Released under the Apache 2.0 license, WSO2 Agent Manager is designed explicitly to avoid vendor lock-in — giving enterprises full ownership of their technology stack while still delivering enterprise-grade control. General availability is slated for June 2026, with the beta already live for organisations ready to get ahead of the curve.

❓ FAQs

Q: What is WSO2 Agent Manager and what problem does it solve?

A: WSO2 Agent Manager is an open control plane for AI agents that helps enterprises govern, secure, and scale autonomous agents across environments, solving the growing problem of uncontrolled agent sprawl.