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

Instana

Showing 674

Capability to include processes (whitelisting) to monitor in the agent configuration.yaml

Hi, This customer has the challenge to monitor servers where most processes should not be monitored or traced. Therefore a whitelisting approach (explicitly name the instances to be monitored) would be the best solution. Selective monitoring via e...
14 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Alert to detect AZ wide failure in public cloud

When the node failure occurs, we can set "Host Availability" alert. When the az wide spread failure occurs, lots of this "Host Availability" alert will be generated at the similar timing. But to identify that failure is az / region wide more clear...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert / Metric Store 1 Future consideration

DNS Sensor

Hello Can we monitor DNS server on linux and windows with these metrics : Availability, Performance, Resolution Quality, Thread count, Query rate (QPS), Recursive vs authoritative query ratio, Cache hit ratio, Cache eviction rate, Negative caching...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Instana to support monitoring of Db2 databases with DPF enabled.

Current Instana Db2 sensor seems to not support Db2 database where DPF(Database Partitioning Feature) is enabled. There is a customer using Db2 database and all their database is DPF enabled. They are looking for a database monitoring solution whi...
about 2 months ago in Instana / DB2 1 Future consideration

Would like to have a maintenance window auto delete after expiration or be able to select more than one to delete after window is done

Would like to have a maintenance window auto delete after expiration or be able to select more than one to delete after window is done
about 2 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

Provide an agent (fleet) management through the backend UI

Hi, The capabilities of the configuration.yaml and the ability to stack several of those files are great but when administering literally 1000s of agents in a tighly controlled production system this proves to be very labour intensive and error pr...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

possibility to monitor Temenos T24 Core Banking application (Transact) running on Openshift

Many customers evaluating Instana is in banking space. There are multiple such customers running Temenos. So, supporting Temenos T24 (Transact) on Openshift would be a big plus.
2 months ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 0 Future consideration

add webhook log

Currently, when webhook alert notifications are sent, there is no way to confirm if the delivery was successful. There is a need to add a status query API for alert retransmission. 1. Add an API to query the results of webhook alert notifications....
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Time-rage per widget

All widgets in Instana's custom dashboard follow the same time-rage (from the top right corner of the UI). This idea is for each widget to be able to override this time range.
2 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 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...
2 months ago in Instana / User Interface 2 Future consideration