Skip to Main Content
Cloud Management and AIOps


This is an IBM Automation portal for Cloud Management 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?

Instana

Showing 1172

Instana to support Vercel

Vercel is actually the easiest, most powerful and easy-to-use platform that can help developers build and deploy high-quality web applications quickly and efficiently. It offers a variety of features such as continuous integration and deployment (...
8 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Future consideration

Acknowledging alert

Currently, when an alert is triggered in Instana, our operations team receives a notification. While this is a crucial step in our monitoring workflow, we find that the process of acknowledging these alerts is not as streamlined as we would like i...
12 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Planned for future release

Dashboard threshold and Y-Axis label

Currently the charts are miss understandable because of the missing y-axis label and the missing possibility to paint a simple line Threshold Line Make it possible to add a line or two in the charts to visualize good an not so good values. Maybe a...
12 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 1

Grafana plugin: Support regex in metric field

Hello, I would like to use regex in metric field in order to show one metric (e.g. Free pool size) for all applications in same graph/panel. Best regards, ldrascic
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Add Event name (aka. Alert rule name) into alert JSON message

Hello, Currently, when alert is triggered instana sends alert as JSON message to Alert Channel (Splunk in our case). Can you please add Event name (aka Alert Rule Name) into those JSON messages so that we know which instana event (alert rule) crea...
4 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Oracle Tuxedo Domain Dashboard - Update what the 'Messages' Reflects

Under the prebuilt Oracle Tuxedo Domain dashboard that shows Machines, click the link to get to a dashboard view of that machine. On this dashboard page, there is a Queues section. Today, there is a column that shows 'Messages' in the table that r...
8 months ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 2 Future consideration

The customer needs to have Cloudera metrics

We think could be better to have Cloudera monitoting in the "Platform" section because Cloudera links a lot of other infrastructure metrics below.
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Auto detect JMX values

Requested is a feature where we have auto-discovery and i.e. have an ability to select which Metrics to show/activate JMX params are very difficult to reach (many clicks needed)
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Java / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Tracing support for APIGee Hybrid

The Apigee product is "Apigee Edge". We are using Apigee as SaaS so we do not know about the current version. Regarding the use case:Apigee is our central API provider, e.g. for our AppEngine Single Page Applications but also all of our Middleware...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Ability to track Page Transitions & Geography details with automatic instrumentation

Automatic instrumentation provides an easy way to monitor websites with no extra configuration needed on the application/website pages. However, with this approach we are unable to track page transitions and geography details. It would be helpful ...
8 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration