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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 ...
7 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Real User Monitoring / Synthetic 2 Delivered

When SSO is enabled, feature to send invite email to add users should be disabled

Once SSO is enabled, in order to get access to application users need to be part of AD security group. But if any user (even outside the organization) is sent invite to join Instana, he/she can create his/her own password and can login to the appl...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Delivered

Permissions - Configuration of Events, Alerts, Smart Alerts

We would like to prevent the user from deleting or disabling custom made Events, Alerts, Alert Channels made by other users and allow user to make their own.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control / Alert 1 Delivered

Restrict access to Heap Dumps

Currently everyone who has access to a JVM infrastructure perspective in Instana can also create a heap dump from there. Heap dumps might contain sensitive information. This access to the heap dump implies a major security and compliance issue for...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Delivered

Enable recording access logs for each Instana tenants with different tenant and unit names.

[Background] The customer has created separate tenants for the production and development environments.According to the Case, when there are two Instana tenants(Tenant#1,Tenant#2) with different a tenant name and a unit name, and when users logged...
3 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Security and Compliance 2 Delivered

RBAC and specific role behavior for "agent management"

- Allow users to read the agents-list while not able to change loglevel or even reset/update every agent they like- Allow users to view configuration while not being able to change it (i.e. show AP configuration but not alter it)- Allow users to s...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Delivered

Support of Read audit Log

In regards of the incident, ticket : https://instana.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/24625 ouiSNCF is asking for the support of Read Audit Log.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Delivered

RBAC UI - Ability to 'Select All' when selecting Product Areas, k8s etc

As an Instana administrator, I would like the ability to 'Select All' before or after filtering when setting up Groups so that I easily set up Groups with access to a large number of product areas. (Currently it is possible to filter but then you ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Delivered

Grant creator of the Application the Access Application Perspectives for created App

When a user with limited access tries to create a new Application Perspective, the application perspective gets created, but the user does not get added to the Access Scope, for the newly created Application Perspective. Expected behaviour: that t...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Delivered

Ability to delegate admin for creation of (ie) application perspectives based on the access scope a user has

When giving a user access based on a scope of entities it should be possible that the user within that scope can create his own application perspectives.
over 4 years ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Delivered