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Extend Instana Terraform Provider to Support RBAC with Teams & Roles

Instana is introducing Teams and Roles for RBAC, but the Terraform provider does not yet support managing these entities. For large organizations, managing RBAC as code is crucial for maintaining consistency, security, and quality control. Extendi...
7 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Future consideration

The idea is to restrict users from accessing a branch.

More specifically, users can only access the branch assigned by the admin. For example, Employee A can only work in Branch A and cannot access Branch B or C.
9 months ago in Apptio / Other 0 Submitted

Uncouple "view synthetics" and "view configuration" permission

We discovered that users able to view synthetics are also able to view the synthetics configuration. This configuration contains sensitive data, such as authentication tokens. It is extremely important that we are able to uncouple the two permissi...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

Need to separate owner group mapping to prevent locking owners out

Hello Colleagues, we have several customers who locked out owner's user account while configuring LDAP mapping. It is one time operation, but affects all enterprise customers and often causes questions, requires several attempts in self-hosted env...
9 months ago in Instana / Access Control 4 Not under consideration

Warning Message for +5m rows in cldy_monthly_aws and cldy_monthly_azure

Hi, It would be great to include a warning message for big cloud bill loads into A1, to advise things to check to slim down this dataset. So for example: Resource Level information should not be includedUsage Date should not be includedItem Descri...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Other / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Planned for future release

Instana observabiltiy console - grant access to specific vSphere Datacenter

We monitoring multiple vSphere Datacenters, but we would like have option to grant access to view them separtely, same like for Kubernetes view
7 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Future consideration

Filter conditions should be private / shared by certain permissions

Instana users can "save, edit, and delete filters". https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=instana-filtering-dynamic-focus And it is 'shared' with all users automatically. But if a customer plans to accept Instana corporat...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

UI group info for users

It would be helpful for users to be able to see which groups he is a member of. When using SSO and group mapping, in order to troubleshoot issues this is very helpful. But at the moment nothing can be seen by regular users about their groups. For ...
9 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1

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 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 4 Not under consideration

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 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control 3 Functionality already exists