The "observability tax," AI and the SaaSpocalypse

"I would love there to be a SaaS apocalypse" in observability – that's the spicy take from Ari Zilka, CEO at data pipeline engine startup MyDecisive.ai, and a former exec at New Relic and Hortonworks. MyDecisive's open source software targets data management costs from observability vendors such as Datadog by reducing data at the source; it can also proactively alert on and take action on OpenTelemetry data as it comes in from enterprise applications. If Zilka has his way, observability will return to enterprises as an in-house discipline, but without requiring an army of engineers to set it up.

Featuring: Ari Zilka, CEO at MyDecisive.ai

In today’s episode, we’ll cover…

• MyDecisive's approach to AI and Zilka's outlook on AI agents (It's not what you might think)
• Observability costs and how MyDecisive proposes tackling them
• MyDecisive vs Cribl and other data pipeline tools

And more!

References:

• New Relic plans to expand AI agent observability
• Snowflake storms into IT monitoring with Observe acquisition
• Dynatrace AI agents draw on new observability integrations

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