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Access Control

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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

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

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...
about 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

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