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Status Functionality already exists
Workspace Instana
Categories Access Control
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 11, 2025

Allow granularity to Disable Profiles

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. There is no current setting to restrict profiling data visibility independently.

Propose Enhancement: Include an option in Settings → Groups → Security & Access → Edit Access Configuration to Disable Profile view


Justification
We are providing clients with access to the environment specifically to monitor End User Monitoring (EUM) data and correlate it with backend traces. However, we do not intend to expose any infrastructure-level information to these users. The current configuration undermines this boundary by allowing access to infrastructure data through dashboards, events, or profiling views. We recommend implementing stricter enforcement of infrastructure access restrictions, ensuring that: Users with “No Access” to infrastructure cannot view related metrics, events, or profiling data—even indirectly through dashboards or analytics. EUM-focused users can correlate frontend and backend performance without visibility into the underlying infrastructure.

Idea priority High
  • Admin
    Máté Návay
    Jul 17, 2025

    Setting the group’s Infrastructure access to “No access” should remove all infra level information from the AP dashboards as well.