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?
PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...

All ideas

Showing 3193 of 3193

Download & Export only top 50

Allows you to download all line items in the top list when selecting Download. Otherwise you need to keep on clicking on "View More" to see all of the line items. If you want to see 1000s then you need to click "View More" until you reach the end ...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Stop Azure Application Gateway via a schedule/policy to reduce costs when back-end pools are off line or shutdown.

Azure Application Gateways cannot be stopped/started via the Azure Web Portal, but they can be stopped or started using Azure CLI or Powershell. There is also a POST command API method to start/stop an Application Gateway that can be found in the ...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration

Get metrics from Instana to use in Argo Rollouts

As is known, Argo is currently the top opensource tool to make deployments. Argo Rollouts extends the capability of ArgoCD and provided features as blue/green deployment or canary deployments. As you might know Canary deployments work in the follo...
10 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Support for string value collection and storage

Today, there are a handful of devices that expose data as stringtype, e.g. "up", "down", "active", "standby". Enhance SevOnes collection and storage engines to allow strings to be handled by the system.
10 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

Add Instana API for application event and log messges

We have clients need to get useful info from Instana API, currently there is no API for Application -> Log Message and Application -> Error Message, can you please help to add those APIs?
10 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Need to be able to create a custom Event via the Agent API and specify a Host other than the Host of the Agent

Need to be able to create a custom Event via the Agent API and specify a Host other than the Host of the Agent. A customer is doing remote detection of problems. They want to be able to open an Event and have the Event indicate that it is affectin...
10 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Add appropriate filters to Smart alerts.

Dear colleagues, we're during PoC and noticed that creating a Smart Alert from Application perspective triggers the same component of the same application running on different OCP clusters. Detailed investigation showed that the application has th...
10 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 2 Not under consideration

Podman support on zLinux

Currently, the Podman beta is supported only on x86 Linux. St.of CA has a very large zLinux infra base ->> we need Podman support for zLinux
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Allow for the creation of Turbonomic groups based on VMware Virtual Machine Hardware Versions

As a user with a large VMware environment who is automating action execution through ServiceNow I would like the ability to create groups based on VM Hardware version. Turbonomic is currently recommending to increase the number of vCPU's outside t...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Future consideration

Collecting external URLs used in Webviews

Hi all, following support ticket TS012739487 regarding flutter monitoring within Instana, we need now to have a way to collectU, within Instana, all the URLs that are getting accessed when we're using webviews in our mobile applications. Please le...
10 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration