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Access Control

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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.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 3 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
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Functionality already exists

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.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 3 Future consideration

Implementing a RBAC based access for displaying the PII information in the tracing details

Hi Team, As we were evaluating the usage of Instana Real user monitoring, we saw a concern about all users be able to see the PII information like user name and email address, however we want to limit these details only to a specific set of users...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control / Real User Monitoring 3 Future consideration

Prompt user to login (two use cases)

Customer would like to be prompted to either login after an expired session in UI or when he is trying to do something that requires that he is logged in. Perhaps this could be configured with Session settings. The problem is UI lets users do a lo...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Ability to map Google SSO groups to Instana groups

Ability to map Google SSO groups to Instana groups
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 3 Functionality already exists

Add using MS Active Directory user groups for managing user acces.

Give different access to the Instana application for members of Active Directory user group and not for specific user. Requested by Banks Security team
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Functionality already exists

Add the Old Values for changes in the Action Logs

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

More verbose/readable audit logs in Instana UI

I would like more verbosity in the Audit Log with more detail of what exactly changed so that I can more accurately evaluate (or undo) changes made by users.
 IIRC this was mainly around 1) the use of IDs rather than display names and 2) vagu...
almost 4 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

RBAC - Add support for AD Group to Instana Group mapping

The customer would like to manage users by linking AD Groups to Groups within Instana so that I do not have to recreate teams and roles which already exist within Active Directory.
over 4 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Functionality already exists