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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...
4 months ago in Instana / Access Control Not under consideration

User should be able to see the entities explicitly tagged to a instana team

When part of a team, users should be able to use the filter function to search for specific team tag. If an entity/dashboard/AP has been tagged to a team, that team tag should be searchable in the UI to show the entities associated to that team. T...
23 days ago in Instana / Access Control Future consideration

Add team association to Automation actions

While using tags and setting the matching tags in team scope to limit access of users to Automated actions, HSBC would like to have the same direct team association available.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Access Control / Automation Future consideration

Fetch the user/User ID list from Instana and filter the results by weekly or monthly login activity

As part of governance we need the userIDs who are logging into Instana. In 1 week/1 month/3 months how many Users have accessed Instana UI
14 days ago in Instana / Access Control Submitted

Instana SaaS must support Dual(Multiple) SSO in the same tenant as Dynatrace is supporting now.

My customer is using Dynatrace that supports Dual SSO, so they are using SAML via Okta for SSO of regular employees and Azure SaaS AD for SSO of partner employees both are having different email domains.However, I got answered from IBM Support tha...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control Not under consideration

Support Additive Role Permissions for Users Assigned Multiple Roles

Problem Statement Instana currently evaluates multiple assigned roles using a restrictive (least-permissive) access model. When a user is assigned multiple roles, permissions do not combine into a cumulative set of privileges. Instead, restrictive...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Access Control Is a defect

Set Session Settings for User Groups

The option to set "User session timeout" and "Idle session timeout" (in Settings - Security Access - Authentication - Session Timeouts - Session Settings) in the Instana SaaS backend should be allowed to be set for groups of users, rather than for...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control Not under consideration

LDAP multiple domains authentication

In current version Instana allow to configure only one LDAP connection.If domains are in tree in theory it should work:For example:aaa.com (points to first domain controller)Domain 1: xzy.aaa.com (first domain controller)Domain 2: 123.aaa.comDomai...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control Not under consideration

Allow limited access to Infrastrucure Smart Alerts

Currently only users with unit wide scope access on Infrastructure are allowed to access Infra Smart Alerts, but we'd like to delegate alert configuration to the teams responsible for their limited area only. This means Infra alerts currently have...
10 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Infrastructure Future consideration

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...
5 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Security and Compliance Not under consideration

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