The Q3 2025 release of IBM Storage Insights builds on its promise of smarter monitoring, unified alerting, and deeper analytics. This update introduces enhanced dashboards, expanded API coverage, richer DS8000 insights, and predictive AI-based alerting — all focused on giving you a clearer, faster view of your storage environment.

📊 Enhanced dashboards and insights

See your data more clearly, manage it more intelligently.

• Grouped capacity by device type
  Your storage capacity is now automatically grouped by storage device type — FlashSystem, SAN Volume Controller, DS8000, and Other storage. This visualization helps you instantly understand capacity distribution across storage types.

• More accurate capacity metrics
  The calculation logic of capacity metrics for FlashSystem and SAN Volume Controller have been refined to reflect actual usage more accurately, giving you greater confidence in capacity planning.

• New columns in capacity views
  Additional data columns have been added for across views for storage systems, pools, managed disks, and volumes, offering richer insights into capacity and performance attributes.

• Health and data collection tile
  The new Health and data collection tile replaces the older Resources tile. It highlights systems in error or with data collection issues, helping you identify and act faster.

• Updated summary tile
  The Summary tile (formerly Components) now displays active alerts and open tickets for a selected device, providing a one-stop snapshot for quick diagnostics.

• Advisor dashboard update
  The Advisor dashboard displays an AI icon beside IBM Storage Insights–generated recommendations, that helps surface AI-powered insights.

For more information, see Improved dashboards and other enhancements

🔌 Enhanced API capabilities

Integrate deeper, automate smarter.

This release expands REST API coverage to help developers and administrators access performance, capacity, and configuration data more flexibly across block, file, and object storage systems.

Key updates include:

• Support for internal component metrics (volumes, pools, quotas, and network shared disks).
• APIs for tenant-level departments, tiers, and applications, with detailed sub-department information.
• AI-powered recommendations available through the advisory APIs at both tenant and system levels.
• Cleaner outputs — API responses now exclude fields with NULL values for more efficient parsing.

Check the Swagger documentation for full request and response details.

🔔 Unified alerting experience

Stay ahead of issues with smarter, cleaner alerts.

• New 7-day alert trend widget
  The Overview dashboard displays a 7-day trend of critical and warning alerts across all monitored devices. The Performance Deviations widget has been moved to the bottom of the page.
• Unified alerts and events page
  Alerts and Events pages are now combined into a single Alerts page with two tabs, Storage Insights alerts and Device alerts, simplifying how you view and manage notifications.
• Updated default alert definitions
• DS8000 systems: Warning alert when used capacity ≥ 90% ; Critical alert when used capacity ≥ 95%.
• Other storage systems: Warning alert when used capacity ≥ 75%; Critical alert when used capacity ≥ 85%.
• FlashSystem systems: Alert for power supply failure when monitored via Call Home with cloud services.
• AI-based capacity alert
  Get notified early when a system is predicted to run out of capacity within 180 days, helping you plan upgrades before issues arise.
• New data rate alerts for applications
  Monitor cumulative data rates across all volumes in an application with four new metrics: read, write, total, and unmap data rates.
• Refined alert definitions
  Default alert policies for IBM Storage Virtualize, IBM Storage FlashSystem, IBM SAN Volume Controller, and DS8000 systems have been updated for better precision and readability.

For more information, see Unified alerting experience

💾 Comprehensive DS8000 configuration updates

Expanded configuration data is now available for the following component types:

• Storage systems: Added WWNN, Encryption, zHyperLink, and Frame columns.
• Nodes: Added Release, Processor, Memory, and Location code details.
• Host adapters: Now displays Encryption capable status.
• RAID arrays: Includes Encryption and Compression savings (%) columns.
• FC ports: Expanded with Type, Security, FEC status, Rx/Tx power, and so on.
• Pools: Added data reduction and FlashCore Module capacity details with alert support.
• Volumes: Includes Extent allocation method, Data type, and Aliases.
• Drives: Added Interface column; removed Vendor.

For more information, see Comprehensive DS8000 configuration updates

📚 Dive deeper!

To explore all new features and technical details, visit What’s new in IBM Storage Insights

🚀 How do I get IBM Storage Insights?

If you’re not already using the free version of IBM Storage Insights, sign up today to start monitoring your storage environment in minutes.

What you need to know:

• You’ll need an IBMid, which serves as your administrator account and single point of access to IBM Storage Insights. IBM uses this ID to share updates, announcements, and your unique instance URL — so make sure your email is valid.
• Don’t have an IBMid? No problem. Simply Create an IBM account. It only takes a few minutes.

This Q3 2025 update continues IBM’s mission to make storage management powerful yet intuitive. From AI-driven insights to cleaner dashboards and unified alerting, these improvements are designed to simplify your daily workflows and keep your data landscape healthy and predictable.