AI DevOps startup MyDecisive has secured $12 million seed funding and launched SmartHub. The open-source observability platform is built to help enterprises manage telemetry data more efficiently.
The company says the platform gives engineering teams greater control over operational data while reducing the cost of running AI-driven applications. Founded by enterprise software veteran Ari Zilka, MyDecisive is entering a crowded observability market with a different approach.
Instead of forwarding every log, metric and trace to external monitoring platforms, SmartHub processes data closer to where applications run, allowing teams to filter, secure and route telemetry before it leaves their infrastructure.
SmartHub is built on Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry and Prometheus. It supports log processing, trace sampling, runtime controls and automated workflows that help engineering teams monitor applications without moving unnecessary data across cloud environments.
As AI workloads continue to grow, enterprises are generating larger volumes of telemetry than ever before. MyDecisive argues that processing data at the edge reduces storage requirements, lowers cloud spending and speeds up operational decisions. The platform is available as open source, allowing developers to deploy and customise it without being tied to a proprietary ecosystem.
Alongside SmartHub, the company introduced Octant, its commercial platform for enterprise customers. It adds governance, security, automated runbooks, anomaly detection and cloud auto-scaling to the open-source foundation.
MyDecisive claims the combined platform can cut production operating costs by up to 90% and can be deployed within a day. Those figures are based on company estimates and have not been independently verified.
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 later served as CTO at Hortonworks, said 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.