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Disable normal user login / automatically purge users from User DB

Customer wants to enable SSO. When they do this, they want to make sure that existing Instana users can no longer login with they email/password, and that new users can no longer create regular logins (only login via SSO).Once the user is deleted ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 3 Functionality already exists

Ability for RBAC to enable Objects on Team Scope

Use-case: To allow more flexible rules for allowing people access to specific entities it would be great to instead of selecting the entities (app perspectives, namespace, etc.) one by one, to allow a query builder approach in which we can use log...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 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 ...
8 months ago in Instana / Access Control 3 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?
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 4 Not under consideration

Map Groups with SAML (Okta)

We have SSO setup for the Instana Backend using SAML with Okta. We would like to be able to map groups provided by the Idp to Instana roles/groups. The ability to map our internal LDAP groups to Instana groups would give us the ability to apply ac...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control / Security and Compliance 2 Functionality already exists

API token for configuration only

Currently - when creating an API token, this token allows full access to monitoring data, including traces and potentially user data. Considering that API tokens are widely used in automation use cases and CI/CD pipelines it should be possible, if...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

ability to remove MFA/2FA from users who lost their MFA device

We often run into the situation where the user loses an Instana MFA/2FA device, and to re-enable the user, we have to raise a ticket to wipe the user and re-create the user from scratch. So this can be easily fixed by giving Instana admins the opt...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Add End User's IP Address and Hostname to INSTANA's Action Logs and Access Logs

This will help companies in regulated industries like Banking to feel more confident their data is secure and identify security incidents. This is a requirement for PCI Certification.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

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...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Functionality already exists

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...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration