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Access Control

Request for Local User Registration (A feature to add users without requiring an SMTP server)

When adding (inviting) a local user to Instana, an SMTP server is required. In an air-gapped environment, there may be cases where the Self-Hosted Instana Backend does not have an SMTP server or cannot communicate with one. I would like to propose...
9 days ago in Instana / Access Control Needs more information

Select the authentication method at the Instana UI Login

Instana supports just one authentication method, this of course affects at Login and there is no other way the customer can select a different way to login, basically, if the current authentication method is broken for some reason, the customer ha...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Access Control / Security and Compliance Not under consideration

Create Automation to Refresh and Update Access Scope of Instana Teams Every "N" Minutes

In large-scale environments where Instana Teams are used to logically segment access across dynamic infrastructures (e.g., Kubernetes, multi-cloud, ephemeral workloads), the resources assigned to a Team’s Access Scope can change frequently. Howeve...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Access Control / Infrastructure Future consideration

Need the ability to access data across multiple Units

Need the ability to access data across multiple Units. Currently, when a user is logged in, they can only see one Unit at a time and have to continuosly switch back and forth between units. There are two reasons they want visibility across multipl...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Access Control / Backend Enablement Not under consideration

Want the ability for Teams and Roles to only be accessible within a single Unit

Today, when you define a Team or Role, they are available across all Units within a tenant. That makes it difficult to control what people have access to. For example, within Unit 1 a person might need administrative permissions like creating Smar...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Access Control Not under consideration

Need the ability to add users to Teams and Roles prior to them logging in for the first time

The customers has many hundreds of users that will be accessing Instana. They are trying to automate the permissions for the users (Roles and Teams). Unfortunately, the APIs will not allow you to add a user to a Role or Team until the user has log...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Access Control Functionality already exists

OAuth authentication for MCP server

Currently the MCP server uses API token authentication, it would be nice to have other auth methods available, mainly OAuth.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Access Control Future consideration

Need the ability to dynamically populate Teams access

The customer has the need for the access controls for Teams to be dynamically populate. The customer has strict naming conventions. Those naming standards can be applied to things like tags, application names, website names, etc. The expectation i...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Access Control Is a defect

Need the ability to track which API Keys/Personal Access Tokens are making API calls

Given that there are scalability issues with large numbers of API calls, the customer has the need to understand which people and which API Tokens and personal access tokens are running large numbers of API requests. That way they can identify whi...
2 months ago in Instana / Access Control Functionality already exists

Want to separate out the Delete permissions from the Create and Update permissions for key RBAC roles

In the past, the customer has had many cases where people and teams have accidentally deleted resources such as Applications. They want a VERY small number of people that have the ability to delete objects. Today, when going into the RBAC settings...
2 months ago in Instana / Access Control Not under consideration

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