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Status Needs more information
Workspace Instana
Categories Access Control
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 11, 2025

Restrict Visibility of Infrastructure Events

Background
We recently created a dedicated group to manage and restrict access to infrastructure-related information. This group has been granted access only to specific application perspectives and selected websites, ensuring that sensitive infrastructure data is available exclusively to authorized users. The goal is to enhance security and maintain better control over critical system insights.
Currently, users are able to view infrastructure-related events for all servers, even when their access to infrastructure is explicitly set to "No Access" in the Edit Access Configuration.

Proposed Enhancement
We propose modifying the access control behavior to ensure that users with "No Access" to infrastructure are completely restricted from viewing any infrastructure-related events. This restriction should apply globally, including for servers that are part of application perspectives the user can access.

Justification
The current configuration undermines the intended access restrictions by allowing visibility into infrastructure events despite the "No Access" setting. This poses a potential security and compliance risk, as it exposes sensitive infrastructure data to unauthorized users. Enforcing stricter visibility rules will align the system behavior with access control expectations and improve data protection.

Expected Outcome
Users with "No Access" to infrastructure will no longer see any related events.
Application perspective access will not override infrastructure visibility restrictions.
Improved alignment with security policies and access governance.

 

Idea priority Urgent
  • Admin
    Máté Návay
    Aug 20, 2025

    Can you please clarify what you mean by Infrastructure Events?
    Restricting access to the Infrastructure area means these users are barred from using the infrastructure analyze and infra map features. If they have access to the global permission of Events and Alerts, there is no additional filtering there, as it's a global permission.