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 72

Non-root installation of Instana agent

By installing the agent as a non-root user, the Instana administrator has the ability to stop, start, or reconfigure the agent without having to manage or request access as the root user. This process can sometimes take up to 24 hours to grant acc...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Add Disable Functionality for Custom Field Options

When managing a custom field dropdown list, it would be helpful to have the ability to disable individual field options. Over time, certain options may become outdated or irrelevant, and being able to disable them would allow for a cleaner, more s...
29 days ago in Targetprocess / Other 1 Not under consideration

Ability to have separate Team Workflows even if there is more than one Final State in the default Workflow for User Stories

Allowing separate Team level workflows when there are two final states would allow us to still have a Cancelled Final State and a Done Final State, but still allow teams to expand for additional states on Workflows to better process their work. Ke...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 1 Not under consideration

Server/Agent-Level Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) in Instana

Hi Team,Currently in Instana, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) can be applied at the Websites, Mobile Apps, Business Process and Applications etc... levels. However, there is no provision to assign access permissions at the server or agent level. ...
3 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Allow view of all testing entities in single views in an intuitive hierarchy

Currently, Targetprocess uses Test Plans, Cases and Runs in a somewhat confusing manner. Individual steps must be contained in Test Cases, but it is not possible to simply run a Test Case. These must be attached to Test Plans and then run as a Tes...
2 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 1 Not under consideration

Attachments must go with Test Runs. Currently, attaching screenshots during Test Runs is unusable because they are attached to Test Cases rather than Test Runs.

Currently, Test Plans can contain other Test Plans as well as Test Cases. Test Cases hold the individual steps to be used in each run. Therefore they are the primary repeatable template for all testing, used in each run. The results of individual ...
2 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 1 Not under consideration

Agent update from Instana dashboard

Dear colleagues, we have a customer who prefers manually trigger agent updates from Instana dashboard. At the moment we have a button "Update Agent" which works when Instana agent has access to the Internet. Many of our customer use Instana and mo...
7 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Feature to change Instana metrics granularity / polling interval

There is a 1s granularity hard-coded in Instana. That is for example for host metrics and JVM etc. It would be great if we could increase the granularity at will in UI admin settings and at agent-level in configurations. For performance related re...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Custom Agent installation path

This request is related to a missing option that allows to define a custom path for agent installation on both Windows and Linux. The need is to install the agent in a folder other than the default folder, for security compliance reasons.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Modify Custom Zone and Tags of the agents from Instana web UI

Currently when we wish to modify the custom zone or the tags for one agent, we need to connect to the host, go to the configuration.yaml and change the file. For security reason, it isn't always possible to connect manually to the host. I wish to ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 6 Not under consideration