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Access Control

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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...
5 days ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

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...
5 days ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

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.
8 days ago in Instana / Access Control 0 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...
24 days ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Under review

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...
26 days ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Need more security granularity in API Tokens

Customer needs more granularity in the API Tokens. Today, when setting up API Tokens, you can restrict the types of access to things like Websites, Application, Infrastructure, and whether or not they are read-only or administrative permissions. T...
26 days ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Future consideration

Want to be able to block Agents that don't have a "tag" with a compliance naming convention

The customer manages their monitoring solultion in a very decoupled way. Each business application is able to setup and deploy their own agents. But, there are naming conventions that are used to ensure that the Agent is supposed to connect. And, ...
26 days ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Under review

Support Multiple SAML Certificates for Seamless Certificate Rotation

Currently, when rotating SAML certificates (typically done annually for security compliance), our organization experiences service downtime. This occurs due to the time lag between: Activating a new certificate on our Identity Provider (IdP) A...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Functionality already exists

I want the default display when a user accesses the Team configuration which I configured

Currently, Instana allows you to restrict the screen visibility of users based on the settings assigned to a "Team." For example, you can display only specified apps, such as the Application Perspective. However, the current default behavior is th...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Access Control / User Interface 3 Functionality already exists

Possibility to hide API tokens permanently after initial creation

Hi, API tokens in Instana can always be lookep up after creation and copied by everyone with the appropriate permissions. In our organisation there is a regulation, that access credentials or similar data needs to be placed in the company PIM syst...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration