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Role Based Access Control - Add Functionallity to be able to limit access to specific Platforms (Vmware, HMC)

Hello.We would like to limit user access to see only specific applications and hosts. We create group and we can exclude/include scope for website, applications, mobileapps and kubernetes.But we cannot exclude Platforms view for HMC and Vmware. Re...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Functionality already exists

Add Windows Active Directory group (Security Group) to Instana

As per support case #27832, We asked to add AD group to instana to provide the permission to groups, but that feature is not available it seems, please check to add AD group for providing permissions.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 3 Not under 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

Ability to change Instana Tenant Names and Add Description

Need ability to change tenant names displayed without impacting monitoring of applications and add description along with tenant names in Instana Tenant Switcher page. Please Note : No modifications in the URL's is required as it would impact moni...
6 months ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Not under consideration

Government System Use Warning

We have been going through our annual assessment for ATO the last few weeks and one of the artifacts that we needed to present is a screenshot of a “Government System Use” warning for Instana. I’m sure you have run across something like this in th...
6 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Instana - Add Group Descriptions

Today in IBM APM, we can add descriptions to user groups to give more information about what the user group is for. There is no way to do that in Instana today. Can it be added?
10 months ago in Instana / Access Control 4 Not under 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