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

All ideas

Showing 438

Add support for X.509 certificate-based authentication in the MariaDB sensor for Instana.

Currently, the Instana MariaDB sensor does not support SSL or X.509 certificate-based authentication. Our customer(BWI) uses X.509 authentication for all database access, and despite following the documented configuration steps, the sensor fails t...
5 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Request for HTTP Communication Support in Instana SaaS

Some customers only allow HTTP communication to monitor all outbound traffic from their environment. Currently, on-premises deployments support both HTTP and HTTPS configurations, but SaaS deployments only allow communication over HTTPS. We kindly...
25 days ago in Instana / Agent 3 Submitted

Provide ability to surface all CUR columns in Cloudability's reporting

Many of our customers have custom use cases that require more fields in the CUR than Cloudability provides. An example is the Legal Entity field. Surfacing Legal Entity would enable better visibility into the 3rd party vendor that is being purchas...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Make project names editable

Users created a project name but then want to change the name or remove it and that functionality is not available.
4 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Permit & Document method to allow customer hardening of AIOps Egress communications

Customers have specific requirements for the configuration of egress from the product - route restrictions, method restrictions, specific per-site timeouts etc. These are instantiated as additions or modifications to the external-facing nginx cont...
4 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Windows cluster monitoring

Need support for windows cluster related metrics, and for Cluster Shared Volumes
6 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

SLO Horizontal Scalability with Datadog

Datadog's 2024 revenue was 2.6B USD against 1.6B USD from Dynatrace. It's clear Datadog's growth and the relevance. IBM advertise the SLO horizontal scaling which is a great way to deliver true elasticity, but today we only work with Instana and D...
12 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Submitted

Authentication for Palo Alto Prisma SASE has 'token' but there are steps that need to be run to get the token in the first place

Please support the following fields to create a token: client_idclient_secrettsg_id as an alernative or replace for token Additionaly, the base URL for API calls needs to pan.dev, for example https://pan.dev/sdwan/api/ I have reviewed the logic So...
2 days ago in Rapid Infrastructure Automation 0 Submitted

Ability to “exclude” checked items in Apptio BI report global filter

Problem: Currently global report filters only have "include" functionality. That is items checked in the filter are included in the report summaries. However, there are cases where users want to exclude all but a small number of options. Right now...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Add user role(s) as column in user table shown on Apptio Access Administration home page

Problem:Right now you to determine what role a user has you need to click into an individual user record to see their details. There is no way for an admin to easily retrieve a list of all users in a particular role from the Access Administration ...
2 days ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Submitted