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

User Interface

Showing 106 of 6915

Customer Request: Instana SaaS Usage Metering and Cost Forecasting Dashboard

There is a need to provide an Instana SaaS usage metering dashboard and a cost forecasting dashboard,with enhancements requested to reach a comparable level of functionality to what Dynatrace currently provides. Background for the Feature Enhancem...
about 3 hours ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Custom Dashboard - Show Data labels in Pie Chart

We use Instana extensively across our enterprise and have been building custom dashboards with pie charts for various reporting needs. While analyzing the data, we noticed that the pie‑chart tooltip displays only the percentage value without the c...
15 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Allow for time buckets on dashboards

When aggregating metrics over periods of time, Instana automatically adjusts and adds or averages metrics over different time buckets (for instance, for 1 hour, it groups in 1-minute, if we take 2 hours, 5-minute buckets, etc.)... If one could cho...
15 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Under review

Multiple Tags at Object Level

Can IBM please add the option to allow multiple Tags to be associated with Objects at an Object level not Agent level, for example MQ Queue Managers / Ace Integration Servers . This is required on a large enterprise to allow custom dashboards to e...
about 1 month ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Submitted

Custom Dashboard Panel - Persist with filters values

In custom dashboard I'm not able to hold/save the custom dashboard data with filter values. So, I'm asking for a change in behavior on the existing preview filter feature within the custom dashboard. Please refer support ticket and attached screen...
4 months ago in Instana / User Interface 2 Future consideration

take off the menu bar when I save a dashboard as PDF

the customer wants to save the information that a dashboard shows, but the PDF shows a menu bar over the information. I uploaded the PDF that was generated with the menu bar and the second file is an example without the menu bar.
9 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1

I want the default display when a user accesses the Team configuration which I configured

Currently, Instana allows you to restrict the screen visibility of users based on the settings assigned to a "Team." For example, you can display only specified apps, such as the Application Perspective. However, the current default behavior is th...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Access Control / User Interface 3 Functionality already exists

Need ability to view which entities/processes/application/containers are consuming from the Pod's Mem/CPU Usage

Hi Team, Application is crashing due to increased memory. Want to view in Instana UI, where actual application memory and CPU is getting used. Example: Allocated memory for application is 6Gi, and 12 CPU. These usages want to see in instana UI Tha...
4 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Provide all Top-List options in Table "[Application(traces&calls), business metrics, business process...]" for custom dashboards

Hi Team, In the custom dashboard, 1. Add Widget - Currently in the "Table" type of customer dashboard, the datastore dropdown has only 3 values as below. "Events" "Infrastructure & Platforms" "Kubernetes Events" 2. We want to have all dropdown...
3 months ago in Instana / User Interface 2 Future consideration

Provide a way to cleanup unwanted tags for otel

Hello, We noticed that otel dynamic tags when they reach a hard limit of 500, blocks the filtering of new tags. If there is a way to delete tags which are obselete then this gives more control to the user. Another idea is to set priority to the ta...
27 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted