Skip to Main Content
Cloud Management and AIOps


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).

Shape the future of IBM!

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:

Search existing ideas

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,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.

Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

ADD A NEW IDEA

Clear

Ideas

Showing 12

SLO based alerts

We think it should be possible to create alerts based on defined SLIs and SLOs. Currently, it's not possible to alert if something is consuming an available error budget too fast over a certain time or that we consumed the error budget already com...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Delivered

Support for PHP in rootless podman

As part of the ongoing support for rootless podman, we would like to request full support for PHP, both for Infrastructure monitoring (sensor) as well as tracing.
10 months ago in Instana / PHP / Tracing 1 Delivered

Allow disabling active monitoring of PHP-FPM via pm.status_path in PHP Tracer through a custom setting in Instana configuration

Currently, the Instana PHP Tracer performs active monitoring of PHP-FPM processes using the endpoint configured in pm.status_path, triggering CGI backend requests every second to retrieve the status of the worker pools. This behavior can be mislea...
3 months ago in Instana / PHP 2 Delivered

To be able to monitor PHP for Windows

We would like to monitor Nginx and PHP on windows. But according to our checking, both Nginx and PHP for Windows is currently not supported. So, it would be great if you support Nginx and PHP soon to be able to monitor by Instana. Best Regards, Kh...
over 3 years ago in Instana / PHP 4 Delivered

AWS Fargate agent for PHP Fargate Collector

Instana currently supports following Fargate Collectors https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-aws-fargate-agent. It would be nice if you can also add support for PHP language.
over 2 years ago in Instana / PHP 5 Delivered

#EMEA #SPGI Add support for PHP 8.1

Durign a PoC with a public transport agency in Spain we have discovered that Instana does not support PHP 8.1, most of their develepment is based on PHP frameworks so not having this tracing capability for this version of PHP does not allow them t...
over 3 years ago in Instana / PHP / Tracing 8 Delivered

Enabling the option of ordering SLOs by status

We would like to have the option to order SLOs by status AND/OR having the change to filter those which have their budget exhausted This feature at the Service Levels panel would make the tools more user-friendly, in my opinion.
12 months ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Delivered

Monitoring Forked Processes in PHP

Description: We would like to propose the addition of functionality to monitor forked processes in PHP. Currently, there are monitoring tools available for PHP, but there is a lack of capability to monitor specifically forked processes. This is pa...
over 1 year ago in Instana / PHP 3 Delivered

Allow for increases in SLI quota for Instana.

We have run into a hard limit for the number of SLIs that are able to be created in Instana. When we asked to have the limit increased, we were told by the Instana engineers that this isn't possible currently. Its a hard coded limit that isn't abl...
over 2 years ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Delivered

Make Website Metrics available in SLO Widget

Make Websites metrics available in SLO Widgets. Stats like "First Contentful Paint", "Page Views", "Time to First Byte", and "OnLoad Time". Currently only Application perspectives are supported.
over 3 years ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Delivered