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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 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control / Security and Compliance 2 Functionality already exists

Customer defined encryption key for data at rest

Have the option for customers to defined their encryption key for data stored at rest on INSTANA's SaaS Backends. For example, an integration with IBM Key Protect for IBM Cloud could do that.
over 3 years ago in Instana / SRE 1 Not under consideration

Instana WEB monitoring API key protection against malicious data ingestion

Currently WEB monitoring configurations on Instana are allowing anyone having access to the key used in the JavaScript configuration to ingest data. For security reasons it would be nice to limit the acceptance of data ingested by using a particul...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Future consideration

TLS connections to scrape Prometheus endpoints

Allow TLS connections for connections from Instana agents/sensors instances to scrape target prometheus endpoints
about 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Security and Compliance 2 Not under consideration

To alert on CVEs, introduce a new event type in Instana for "Vulnerabilities Detected"

Instana should provide capabilites to create an event based on a vulnerability detected for the particular host/technology, so that the customer's support teams are alerted for the detected vulnerabilities. The event could be either a System Event...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 1 Not under consideration

K8-Deployment Environment Variables from Kubernetes Secrets should not be visible in process Environment Variables

Introduction: --------------- Our enterprise company uses instana as a shared open platform for all our developers and teams. We recently noticed that some of the teams have visible secrets in the process views.Also, we use strict secret Filtering...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Security and Compliance 1 Not under consideration

Open a service IP per tenant to send events via Webhook

Open a service IP per tenant to send events via Webhook, so that you don't have to open the entire list of IPs given by the instant support according to the region and then run the risk of adding more IPs without inform us and that the alerts do n...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / SRE 1 Not under consideration

Manually deleting specific traces from an application

We had a security incident at Instana, we found sensitive data in the traces of an authentication application. We are looking for a way to manually delete these special traces.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives / SRE 1 Not under consideration

support com.instana.secrets filtering on HTTP cookie headers

The HTTP Cookie header is useful to capture for debugging purposes. However, for security in depth it would be beneficial to be able to mask certain cookies, e.g. the login/session cookie.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Security and Compliance / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

New Agent Key in case of leak or security concerns

As customer I want to ensure that when the Agent Key leaks, nobody can abuse the Key and do harmful things with it. To be able to manage (add, manage, delete) the Keys (Sub-Keys) inside the Instana UI would help to monitor and govern who has acces...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control / Security and Compliance 2 Functionality already exists