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

View all
PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...
PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.

Instana

Showing 1019 of 2992

Instana - Update Prebuilt Dashboard for Tuxedo sensor

Under Oracle Tuxedo sensor > Tuxedo Machine > Queues dashboard, we see commas for the Sender PID and Receiver PID columns. However, for the Servers grid on that same page, the PID column doesn't have any commas:1) Please remove the commas fr...
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Instana - Add Group Descriptions

Today in IBM APM, we can add descriptions to user groups to give more information about what the user group is for. There is no way to do that in Instana today. Can it be added?
9 months ago in Instana / Access Control 4 Not under consideration

Add times in custom payload

Dears, It will be good to have custome payload for time to use it as issue start time and issue closed time.
9 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Planned for future release

Get EventId Info from Log.

Dears, It will be better to get EventId info from log file... We should get more info for an EventId from log files...
9 months ago in Instana / Logging 2 Not under consideration

Adaptive Threshold for Erroneous Calls - Global Smart Alerts

Currently in Global Smart Alerts, adaptive threshold option is there for Slow calls, HTTP Status Codes and throughput. Whereas, for erroneous calls only static threshold is available. Static threshold will not account for the daily erroneous call ...
9 months ago in Instana / Alert 3 Future consideration

Allow to alert only on new, unique errors

For front-end browser errors in particular, it would be very helpful to receive alerts for new errors, which are unique based on their error message and source code position. Instana already contains the concept of unique JavaScript errors based o...
9 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Future consideration

Permission: Seperate permissions / introduce new permission for Service endpoint configuration

Currently "Service and Endpoint Mapping" permission is keeping global permissions to custom service rule and synthetic endpoints. We bellive that service endpoint configuration should be done by users for their services while global permission sho...
9 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Future consideration

Full support for sensors to run under a non-root account

Regarding IBM APM today: - For various company support and security reasons, we have all the agents running under a non-root account on AIX and Linux hosts with limited sudo setup required. Limited sudo setup in the sense where only dedicated full...
9 months ago in Instana 0

Disk Trends - Ability to aggregate all disk usage trends into an aggregated single metric

Today, if we look at an AIX host within Instana, all it shows in the prebuilt view are insights from individual file systems in terms of disk I/O. What is missing is an aggregated view that combines all the disk I/O together on the host like is cu...
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

AIX - Allow ability to override 'top processes' that appear on prebuilt OS views

Today, if we look at an AIX host within Instana, it doesn't show any 'top processes' based on CPU or memory consumed perspective. Per Ben Stern of IBM, that is due to the current default which will only show 'top processes' that meet this criteria...
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release