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My subscriptions: Access Control

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Personal API Token with same rights than the user to whom the token belows

We have been told by Instana support that users allowed to create their personal API tokens can access through the API to data that they have forbidden to access through the User Interface, which would seem to not be coherent at all. I would like ...
25 days ago in Instana / Access Control / Real User Monitoring / Synthetic 1 Future consideration

True additive group scopes

Currently the group membership model is complicated, and counter-intuititve. If Group A is Access all, and Group B is no access to -say- Infrastructure, a user joining Group A would have full access. If they were to later join Group B, they would ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Future consideration

When sharing a dashboard publicly, add the ability to add 'Groups' as editors as well as individuals

When sharing a dashboard in Instana, you can currently ONLY add individuals as editors. Within the Instana security model itself, you have the ability to assign users to groups via group mappings. It would be nice to be able to add a group as an e...
3 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Support an alternate/multiple authentication methods

Our team/project, ISV is the underlying function behind w3id and ibmid. We would like to use ISV based SSO for authenticating to our tenants. In a scenario we have production issue with the ISV tenant that is used for the Instana SSO, we may not b...
9 months ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Future consideration

Permission: Seperate permissions / introduce new permission for Service endpoint configuration

Currently "Service and Endpoint Mapping" permission is keeping global permissions to custom service rule and synthetic endpoints. We bellive that service endpoint configuration should be done by users for their services while global permission sho...
10 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Future consideration

Give Teams option to hide their services & infrastructure from other teams, in case of sensitive data (Deny-listing)

Give Teams option to hide there services & infrastructure from other teams, in case of sensitive data (Blacklisting) Futher improving the granularity of the RBAC in Instana
10 months ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Future consideration

Restricted read-only permissions for non-technical users of custom dashboards

As an Instana admin configuring access to non-technical users who use Instana only to view custom dashboards, I want to ensure that such users can only view specific custom dashboards and not be able to: Create new custom dashboards Duplicate exis...
12 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Future consideration

For audit purposes be able to see user ids and last login on one screen

on user screen be able to see last login, also to be able to export user data.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 3 Future consideration

Implementing a RBAC based access for displaying the PII information in the tracing details

Hi Team, As we were evaluating the usage of Instana Real user monitoring, we saw a concern about all users be able to see the PII information like user name and email address, however we want to limit these details only to a specific set of users...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control / Real User Monitoring 3 Future consideration

Prompt user to login (two use cases)

Customer would like to be prompted to either login after an expired session in UI or when he is trying to do something that requires that he is logged in. Perhaps this could be configured with Session settings. The problem is UI lets users do a lo...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Future consideration