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This is an IBM Automation portal for Cloud Management, Technology Cost Management, Network Automation and AIOps products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).

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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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Email Alert Subject Customization

The email alert subject is currently not customizable with limited options provided only to prefix or suffix. The Advanced feature in the alert channel does not provide us the flexibility to design email subject format. It would be helpful to prov...
16 days ago in Instana / Alert Under review

File based monitoring to check if the file exists

Currently the file plugin in Instana agent does not have the capability to check if a file exist or not. For critical monitoring scenarios, it is important to check if a file exist or not and alert for production environment.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert Under review

Expose JBoss WAR Deployment Status as an Event and Alertable Metric

Instana currently displays the status of JBoss WAR deployments (OK/Failed) in the Web Deployments section, but this status cannot be used for alerting. We would like Instana to expose the WAR deployment status as a metric, event, or health signal ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert Under review

Log SmartAlert Grouping limitation

Currently the log alert grouping is limited to a single dimension. GlobleLife is advanced used and require multi-dimentionsl grouping using Application, environment, host, error type, database, and support team. This will allow them to send the al...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert Under review

Custom Plugin Monitoring Attributes unavailable in Events & Alerts

When windows os services are added to monitoring using host plugin as below, it discovers service name, service state but these important parameters are not available to be used in Events and Alert. Service State is available as metric to create a...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert Under review