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Access Control

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.
13 days ago in Instana / Access Control / Automation Future consideration

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...
3 months ago in Instana / Access Control Needs more information

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

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

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...
4 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Security and Compliance 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...
9 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Infrastructure Future consideration

Granular Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for Instana Dashboards.

Abbott requires tighter security controls over custom dashboards in Instana. The current model grants full permissions (view, edit, delete) to all members once a dashboard is shared with a team. There is no way to restrict access to read-only or l...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Access Control Not under consideration

Business Monitoring: adding a limited access to the user of a group for particular business processes

The customer Iveco wants that some users can see some business processes and other users can see other business processed. More or less we sould have a "limited acess" radio button in the group configuration like the application perspective.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control Planned for future release

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