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Status Future consideration
Workspace Instana
Categories Backend Enablement
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 4, 2025

Instana UI User Connection Management

Can we have the ability to manage our user connections to the UI? Reason is so that we can forcefully disconnect users in case of SOS and we don't want everyone to storm the Instana UI. We'd love to restrict access during emergencies quickly.

Idea priority High
  • Admin
    Darragh Fox
    Jun 23, 2025

    Hi Jannie,

    Thank you very much for your detailed response and very sorry to hear you had issues explained above. Let me forward this to a team member who can more accurately look into this and give feedback weather its something considered for a roadmap.

  • Guest
    Jun 23, 2025

    Hi IBM team,

    The RBAC is not what we are looking for. During Black Friday, we had too many people looking at Instana at the same time. This dramatically reduced performance of the UI down to no one being able to use it. We requested the tenant to be given more resources, but IBM stated that there is sufficient resources for 10k users.

    We had to run around the floor, asking teams to disconnect or close Instana browser sessions. This had the desired effect and the Instana UI became usable again. The a-ha request is to have a list of users currently connected and have the ability to forcefully disconnect them - this feature should have access control to only allow specific admin users to perform the function as per rbac.

  • Admin
    Darragh Fox
    Jun 23, 2025

    Have reached out to Jannie via email and awaiting response.

  • Admin
    Darragh Fox
    Jun 16, 2025

    Discussed with UX designer @Kathryn Leverson . @Guest Please take a look at our documentation for managing user access control. If this documentation doesn't cover your needs, we ask you to provide more specific information for this submission in order for our teams to look at this and provide the right outcome. Some details wed need include; expected user journey or user behaviour, where this is happening on the UI, what is considered an SOS and expand on the result of users storming the Instana UI. If there are screenshots or any other information available please update the comment.