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

Pinned ideas

PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

All ideas

Showing 480

High Availability (HA) for Instana AWS Agent (Cloud Watch Kinesis Stream)

Introduction:-------------We want to make heavy use of the AWS Instana Agent on various AWS Accounts 50+. The Teams want to see and use the AWS Metric Data in Instana for Alerting and Analysis.Therefore we plan to set up an Instana AWS Agent. We l...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Instana Event REST-API -> Add filter options for GET /events

Use-Case:----------The Client wants to get all active Events for a Team in his company to define a team's Environment/Services status.This status of all Events should be aggregated to one Status (if one has an error, Status is in error, else good)...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Planned for future release

Add Formulas and Operators for Calculation into Query Editor ( Dashboard and Alerting)

Use Case:----------- Create new metrics on the fly via calculation (e.g percentage / relative metrics from count numbers)- Sum up values on custom metrics / Business calculations. Desired Solution:------------------- Add Calculation options into t...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Planned for future release

monitor and alert for kubernetes job failures

It would be a great value add to have the ability to monitor and alert for kubernetes job failures. Our system runs a few cronjob nightly and we currently have no way to alert when one of these kubernetes jobs fails.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Planned for future release

Agent / Sensor Releases with a stable tacked Released version

The customer suggested that we implement a stable tag with the rollout of our Agents and Sensor releases in a way : That enables customers to relay on a stable release without major Bugs or issues.
about 3 years ago in Instana 0 Planned for future release

Arithmetic operations on dashboard widgets

The customer wants to be able to create a widget using simple operations (x % / + -...).One of the use cases is creating the widget displaying the count per minute so they have to divide the average by 60 which is not yet possible.
over 3 years ago in Instana 2 Planned for future release

Ability to connect Prometheus endpoint to applicable Instana entity

When collecting Prometheus Endpoints within Application pods all "prom applications" are listed on the host level. This isn't practible as it is not feasible to link them anyhow to the entity (in this case the pod).
almost 4 years ago in Instana 1 Planned for future release

Make Trace Latency = Trace Duration rather than duration of Root Span

In asynchronous processes this can disguise the true duration of a business process and prevent Instana from being able to alert when customers are having a bad experience.
about 5 years ago in Instana 0 Planned for future release

Disable multiple sessions of same user in DWC

Disable multiple sessions of same user in DWC. Same user should not be able to access DWC from different browsers or systems at the same time.
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Filetransfer-plugin for IWS 9.5.x does not support datasets on z/OS (MVS) that are migrated by DFHSM

In TWS 9.3 everything is working fine. When a dataset on z/OS is migrated by DFHSM (the storage-administrator of MVS / z/OS) and TWS (agent or MDM) is trying to upload to, or download from, z/OS, the filetransfer-plugin does an alloc of this datas...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release