The data observability market is dominated by proprietary solutions that do not interoperate, forcing developers, in most cases, to use the tools dictated by IT. This throws a wrench into DevOps' best intentions. Ari Zilka is the CEO of MyDecisive, a company focused on developing open standards in data observability. He has spent his career at open-source companies, including Terracotta and Hortonworks, as well as New Relic, and he believes that an open-source approach and data observability O/S will help DevOps principles and practices have an even greater impact on application and systems development.