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 1792 of 6341

Provision DNS & SSL tests using the Terraform provider

Http action & scripts can be provisioned using Terraform. This is not possible right now for DNS & SSL tests.
3 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

Filtering traces and trace spans based on time spent in various stages such as self-time, network time, waiting time

Knowing the self-time and waiting time of HTTP requests would help in understanding the performance of the system and the performance of downstream systems. This will be helpful in creating accurate SLO dashboards that measure the performance of e...
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Under review

Should be able to see anomalies at business dimensions and tag level. Currently it is limited to Azure subscription group level.

Current anomalies are at subscription group level. We need to manually check which Application is causing the anomaly for each one of them by creating a report and doing further analysis which is time consuming. We should be able to have anomalies...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Under review

Support the flow from Java client application direct to IMS Connect

Java client application making a direct connection to IMS Connect (Z application is Cobol on IMS which then goes to Db2)
8 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Under review

Monitor managed Kafka services with remote JMX (e.g. with Amazon MSK)

There is no supported method in Instana at the moment to monitor/observe managed Kafka services on the public cloud providers, e.g. Amazon MSK. Instana needs a way to pull in metrics and traces from Amazon MSK using remote JMX: https://docs.aws.am...
19 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Have custom metric available in container section

Custom metric is the default metric as it included the chargeback
19 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Instana SaaS on Azure

In Norway and Nordics Azure is the most used public cloud. Clients have committed spedn to Azure and would like to procure Instana as SaaS hosted in Azure. Ideally also to be able to purchase Instana SaaS through Azure Marketplace.
19 days ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

Be able to indicate a false positive for an anomaly

As a FinOps manager, I would like to be able to assess an anomaly in the anomaly detection feature.Currently on AWS, it is possible to evaluate an anomaly based on several criteria :True anomaly: the cost is unexpected and the error must be analyz...
19 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Allow multiple custom rules setup including http.header fields e.g. X-Instana-Service

We run multitechnology service architecture and therefore want to be able to map instana service name on multilevel custom rules e.g. http.header fileds.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Use GPS for geolocation instead of IP address for more accurate location

For real user monitoring or EUM (end-user monitoring): would be great if we can use GPS on mobile device for more accurate geolocation besides using IP Address
5 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 3 Not under consideration