AI DevOps startup MyDecisive has emerged from stealth with $12 million in seed funding and the launch of SmartHub, an open-source observability platform designed to help enterprises manage telemetry data more efficiently while reducing cloud costs.
Founded by enterprise software veteran Ari Zilka, MyDecisive is taking a different approach in the crowded observability market. Instead of forwarding every log, metric, and trace to external monitoring platforms, SmartHub processes data closer to where applications run. This allows engineering teams to filter, secure, and route telemetry before it leaves their infrastructure.
Open-Source Platform Targets Rising Observability Costs
SmartHub is built on Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, and Prometheus. It supports log processing, trace sampling, runtime controls, and automated workflows that help teams monitor applications without moving unnecessary data across cloud environments. As AI workloads grow, enterprises are generating more telemetry than ever. MyDecisive argues that processing data at the edge reduces storage requirements, lowers cloud spending, and speeds up operational decisions. The platform is fully open-source, allowing developers to deploy and customize it without being locked into a proprietary ecosystem.
Octant Adds Enterprise Capabilities
Alongside SmartHub, MyDecisive introduced Octant, its commercial platform for enterprise customers. Octant adds governance, security, automated runbooks, anomaly detection, and cloud auto-scaling on top of the open-source foundation. The company claims the combined platform can cut production operating costs by up to 90% and can be deployed within a day—estimates that have not been independently verified.
Fresh Capital to Support Expansion
Copper Sky Capital led the $12 million seed round. The funding will be used to expand product development and grow the company’s enterprise business. Zilka, who previously founded Terracotta and served as CTO at Hortonworks, emphasized that enterprises need platforms that can process operational data where it is created rather than sending everything to centralized observability tools.
MyDecisive says its platform is already being used across sectors including financial services, healthcare, retail, and telecommunications. As enterprises expand AI deployments, the startup is positioning SmartHub as an open-source alternative for organizations looking to improve observability while keeping infrastructure costs under control.