The New Stack Podcast From Group Science Project to Enterprise Service: Rethinking OpenTelemetry
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Dec 30, 2025 Ari Zilka, founder of MyDecisive.ai and former Hortonworks CPO, brings his rich background in big data to the forefront of observability. He critiques the current state of observability tools for being reactive rather than proactive, sharing insights from discussions with 23 vendors at KubeCon. Ari emphasizes the need for AI-driven solutions that reduce mean time to resolution and operational overhead. He highlights how MyDecisive aims to transform OpenTelemetry into an enterprise-ready service, simplifying telemetry management and automation for developers.
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Reactive Observability Fails MTTR
- Observability tools mostly alert after systems are already broken and don't significantly reduce MTTR.
- Ari Zilka argues proactive operations are needed to act on telemetry before failures cascade.
Automate Rollbacks And Rollforwards
- Automate change decisions using AI so systems can roll forward or roll back without humans staring at graphs.
- Use runtime telemetry-driven actions to reduce human-in-the-loop delays and cut MTTR.
Otel As An On-Prem Enterprise Service
- MyDecisive runs as an on-prem 'bump in the wire' using OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, Prometheus, NATS, and HAProxy.
- It preserves customer control by running in the customer's environment and being open source.