What's new in IBM Storage Insights

Check out the new features and enhancements that are available in monthly update of February 2026 and the Q4 2025 update of IBM Storage Insights and IBM Storage Insights Pro.

IBM® is constantly updating the infrastructure, security, and stability of IBM Storage Insights to improve your experience. Enhanced analytics, troubleshooting capabilities, and more robust data collection are built into this update, so that the IBM Support team can better assist you in monitoring your storage environment.

Also, the following key features are included:
What's New IBM Storage Insights IBM Storage Insights Pro Release
Detecting and responding to ransomware threats in the free version Yes Yes 1Q MR 2026
Workload protection widget enhancement Yes Yes 1Q MR 2026
Monitoring the latest IBM Storage FlashSystem 9600, 7600, and 5600 devices Yes Yes 1Q MR 2026
Organizing dashboard widgets Yes Yes 1Q MR 2026
Viewing and participating in events Yes Yes 1Q MR 2026
Alerting enhancements No Yes Q4 2025
Feedback request form Yes Yes Q4 2025
UI modernization enhancements No Yes Q4 2025
IP Workload metrics for iSCSI host No Yes Q4 2025
Custom dashboard Yes Yes Q4 2025
Performance data exported in user time zone No Yes Q4 2025
Enhanced API support No Yes Q4 2025

Detecting and responding to ransomware threats in the free version

Ransomware threat detection and IBM Storage Defender integration is now extended to the free version of IBM Storage Insights as well. The following updates are included:
  • Ransomware threat detection is enabled by default in the free version of IBM Storage Insights. You can enable or disable this feature from the GUI as needed. Other alert types are not supported in the free version.
  • When a ransomware threat is detected, a red notification banner appears across all pages in the GUI, and an email notification is sent to the configured recipients.
  • Ransomware threat detection details are available only in the modern UI for the free version and in both the modern and classic UI for the pro version of IBM Storage Insights.
  • You can now integrate IBM Storage Insights free version with IBM Storage Defender to automatically share ransomware threat alerts and enable faster response actions. For more information, see Integrating IBM Storage Insights with IBM Storage Defender.
For more information, see Alerts for ransomware threat detection.

Workload protection widget enhancement

The workload protection widget is now displayed in a new look and feel. For single storage family, the widget displays the protection details directly. But, for more than one storage family, the details are displayed in a separate tab for each family. For more information about single and multiple storage family, see Workload Protection on Overview dashboard (Carbon) page.

Monitoring the latest IBM Storage FlashSystem 9600, 7600, and 5600 devices

You can now monitor your IBM Storage FlashSystem 5600, 7600, and 9600 devices in the IBM Storage Insights for their overall health, performance, and capacity.

For more information, see Table 2 of IBM Storage Insights free vs IBM Storage Insights Pro.

Organizing dashboard widgets

You can now organize widgets on the Overview dashboard in the modern UI of IBM Storage Insights by drag-and-drop.

This enhancement lets you organize widgets in the order that best matches your priorities. After you save the layout, IBM Storage Insights preserves your arrangement in the same browser and maintains it for all roles that sign in to the same IBM Storage Insights service, giving you a consistent and personalized dashboard experience.

For more information, see Organizing dashboard widgets.

Viewing and participating in events

The community events bar appears at the bottom of each page and provides updates about upcoming IBM storage events related to IBM Storage FlashSystem and IBM Storage Insights. The bar scrolls continuously and shows an event icon, date, and title so that you can easily find opportunities to learn, engage, and collaborate.

You can discover and participate in events such as IBM storage strategy sessions, IBM Storage FlashSystem launch events, client and partner engagements, user group meetings, and TechXchange. Select an event to view detailed information and access registration or event links in a side panel.

For more information, see Community events section in the Overview dashboard page.

Alerting enhancements

The following alerting enhancements are introduced in this release:
  • New alert definitions:
    • A Warranty and Maintenance-Expired alert definition is included in the default alert policy for IBM block storage systems.
    • A Storage Partition Migration Status alert definition is available for IBM Storage Virtualize systems in custom alert policies.
    • A Power Supply Failure alert definition is included in the default alert policy for enclosures of IBM Storage Virtualize systems, monitored through the data collector. This alert definition is already available for the storage system enclosures monitored through Call Home with cloud services.
    For more information, see Triggering conditions for alerts.
  • A red banner now appears on the individual device dashboard and device details page for out of warranty or maintenance alerts on all IBM block storage systems.
  • When multiple alerts are generated for the same component, storage system, alert condition, alert name, and alert severity, they are grouped into a single row for easier visual management. You can acknowledge or remove an alert group, which also acknowledges or removes all the individual alerts within that group. For more information, see how alerts work
  • The condition alert for a storage system is now suppressed when a component status alert is generated to prevent duplicate alerts for the same triggering condition. However, the overall health of the storage system continues to be determined based on the status of its internal components. For more information, see how alerts work

Feedback request form

The Default to new experience toggle button helps to switch from classic to modern UI and vice versa. A feedback request form is displayed now when you switch the IBM Storage Insights default view from new to classic. For more information, see Default to new experience.

UI modernization enhancements

The following UI enhancements are done in the modern UI of IBM Storage Insights:
  • Virtual machine: Some new options such as View performance, View capacity, and View alert definitions are added under the three dots menu of Virtual machine page.

    Also, a new option View drives is added on the Virtual machine properties right overlay window, which is displayed on selecting View properties option under the three dots menu.

  • Hosts: Some new options such as View alert definitions and View performance are added under the three dots menu of Hosts page. The View performance option is only visible for Hosts that have ESXi OS type.

    The System properties right overlay window now shows Volumes mapped to host information with volumes count for each storage system when you select the View properties option under the three dots menu.

  • Storage system: View alert definitions option is added for file and object storage type under the three dots menu of Storage systems page.

    The System properties right overlay window now shows Configuration and Capacity information when you select the View properties option under the three dots menu.

IP Workload metrics for iSCSI host

Some UI enhancements are done to add 12 IP Workload metrics for iSCSI support on both classic and modern UI platform. The new IP Workload metrics are Host to Node Data Rate (Send), Host to Node Data Rate (Receive), Host to Node Data Rate (Total), Host to Node I/O Rate (Send), Host to Node I/O Rate (Receive), Host to Node I/O Rate (Total), Host to Node Slow I/O (Send), Host to Node Slow I/O (Receive), and Host to Node Slow I/O (Total). The navigation paths where the UI enhancements are done in classic and modern UI are listed in the following table:

Table 1. Navigation paths on Classic and Modern UI for IP Workload metrics
Navigation path on Classic UI Navigation path on Modern UI
Navigate to Resources > Block Storage Systems > Performance tab. Select a IBM Storage FlashSystem device from bottom table and click Edit Table Metrics. Select IP Workload metrics from Table Metrics window. Navigate to Main menu > Storage systems. Click View performance option from three dots menu. On the window that opens, click Metrics and select IP Workload metrics from Table Metrics window
   
Navigate to Resources > Block Storage Systems. Right-click on any IBM Storage FlashSystem device and click View Performance. Click Metrics and select IP Workload metrics from Table Metrics window. Navigate to Main menu > Storage systems. Select a IBM Storage FlashSystem device. On the device page, select Performance tab, click Metrics and select IP Workload metrics from Table Metrics window.
   
Navigate to Resources > Block Storage Systems. Select a IBM Storage FlashSystem device. Click Internal Resources > IP Ports from left window, select IQN Performance tab, click Metrics and select IP Workload metrics from Table Metrics window. Navigate to Main menu > Storage systems. Select a IBM Storage FlashSystem device. On the device page, select Hardware > IP ports from the left window, select IQN Performance tab, click Metrics and select IP Workload metrics from Table Metrics window.
   
Navigate to Resources > Block Storage Systems. Select a IBM Storage FlashSystem device. Click Internal Resources > Nodes from left window, select Performance tab, click Metrics and select IP Workload metrics from Table Metrics window. Navigate to Main menu > Storage systems. Select a IBM Storage FlashSystem device. On the device page, select Hardware > Nodes from the left window, select Performance tab, click Metrics and select IP Workload metrics from Table Metrics window.
   
Navigate to Resources > Block Storage Systems. Select a IBM Storage FlashSystem device. Click Internal Resources > I/O Groups from left window, select Performance tab, click Metrics and select IP Workload metrics from Table Metrics window. Navigate to Main menu > Storage systems. Select a IBM Storage FlashSystem device. On the device page, select Logical > I/O groups from the left window, select Performance tab, click Metrics and select IP Workload metrics from Table Metrics window.

For more information about the 12 new IP Workload metrics, see IP Workload performance metrics.

Custom dashboard

The custom dashboard is reskinned in modern UI. You can view, create, edit, and delete the custom dashboards. For more information, see Creating customized dashboards to monitor your storage and Left pane section on Overview dashboard page.

Performance data exported in user time zone

Now, the exported performance data and the performance graphs align with the user selected time zone. This helps ensure consistency between exported reports and the graphs that are displayed on the UI. The time zone is now available in IBM Storage Insights for all performance graphs. It is available for pools, switches, and hosts also. The performance data can be exported in Browser time zone, System time zone, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), and Central Standard Time (CST) time zones.
Note: Browser time zone and System time zone are dynamic and will change based on your location.
For this, a new drop down Time Zone is added on the classic and modern UI at the following navigation paths:
Table 2. Navigation paths for Time zone and export option
Functionality Navigation path on Modern UI Navigation path on Classic UI
Export performance data from Storage systems page Navigate to Main menu > Storage systems. Select Export performance data from three dots menu. A new drop down Time Zone is added in the Export performance data window. Navigate to Resources > Block Storage Systems. Right-click on the storage system and select Export Performance Data. A new drop down Time Zone is added in the Export Performance Data window.
     
Export performance data from Storage systems details page

Navigate to Main menu > Storage systems. Select any device. On the device page, select System actions > Export performance data from the drop down on the top right. Enter the details and click Export.

 Navigate to Resources > Block Storage Systems. Select any device. On the device page, click Actions > Export Performance Data. Enter the details and click Export.
     
Performance graph UI for Storage systems page Navigate to Main menu > Storage systems. Select View performance from three dots menu. A new drop down Timezone is added in the performance graph UI and you can export data using Export in your requested time zone. Navigate to Resources > Block Storage Systems. Right-click on the storage system and select View Performance. A new drop down Timezone is added in the performance graph UI and you can export data using Export in your requested time zone.
     
Performance graph UI for Storage systems details page Navigate to Main menu > Storage systems. Select any device. On the device page, select any component from left window and click Performance tab of the corresponding device in the right window. A new drop down Timezone is added in the performance graph UI and you can export data using Export in your requested time zone. Navigate to Resources > Block Storage Systems. Select any device. On the device page, select any component from left window and click Performance tab of the corresponding device in the right window. A new drop down Timezone is added in the performance graph UI and you can export data using Export in your requested time zone.
The Timezone and Export option is available on all performance pages across IBM Storage Insights.

For more information, see Step 5 in Exporting and uploading performance data for storage systems and Step 4 in Table 1 of Investigating the performance of storage resources.

Enhanced API support

Some of the metric APIs are modified to include new Type parameter values. The new values added are:
  • iscsi_node_host_kb_send
  • iscsi_node_host_kb_recv
  • iscsi_node_host_kb_total
  • iscsi_node_host_io_send_cnt
  • iscsi_node_host_io_recv_cnt
  • iscsi_node_host_io_total_cnt
  • iscsi_node_host_slow_io_read_cnt
  • iscsi_node_host_slow_io_write_cnt
  • iscsi_node_host_slow_io_total_cnt
  • iscsi_node_host_abort_read_cnt
  • iscsi_node_host_abort_write_cnt
  • iscsi_node_host_abort_total_cnt
The following metric APIs are modified:
Table 3. List of modified APIs
Modified API Description
io-groups/metrics Returns performance metric values for io-groups in a storage system for a particular tenant.
nodes/metrics Returns performance metric values for nodes in a storage system for a particular tenant.
ip-ports/metrics Returns performance metric values for IP ports in a storage system for a particular tenant.
Metrics for general-groups Returns details of a general group internal component (storage system) for a particular tenant.
Metrics for general-groups Returns details of a general group internal component (nodes and io-groups) for a particular tenant.
storage-systems/metrics Returns capacity and performance metric values for all storage system for a particular tenant.
metrics Returns capacity and performance metric values for a specified storage system for a particular tenant.

For more information about request and response formats, see the Swagger documentation.

Watch the following video for a GUI walk-through of the latest IBM Storage Insights features.