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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Instana
Categories Access Control
Created by Guest
Created on May 29, 2026

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Granular Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for Instana Dashboards.

Abbott requires tighter security controls over custom dashboards in Instana. The current model grants full permissions (view, edit, delete) to all members once a dashboard is shared with a team. There is no way to restrict access to read-only or limit visibility to specific roles.

Current Limitations:

  • No Read-Only Mode: Sharing a private dashboard with a team automatically gives all members full editing and deletion rights.
  • All-or-Nothing Public Model: Public dashboards are visible to everyone globally with no option to hide them from specific groups.
  • No Role Segmentation: Users see all dashboards within their scope, preventing role-based dashboard segmentation. 

Requested Capabilities:

  • Dashboard-Level Roles: Implement explicit Viewer, Editor, and Owner roles per dashboard.
  • Read-Only Team Sharing: Allow dashboards to be shared with teams as "View Only."
  • Per-Dashboard Access Control: Provide options to hide specific dashboards completely from unauthorized users or teams.
  • Configurable Team Levels: Move away from global permissions to configurable access levels per asset

 

Idea priority High
  • Admin
    Máté Návay
    Jun 12, 2026

    Thanks for the idea!

    While we are considering to add an additional permission to be able to edit team shared custom dashboards, we're not planning to add individual editor/viewer permissions to each custom dashboard.
    Since all users are able to create their own private custom dashboards and it's also possible to define individual editors on public dashboards, we're not seeing a general demand for this level of access control, while implementing it would make the configuration very complicated and management intensive.

    We believe a Team should represent a set of people who are responsible for a certain area, which means they should be working based on the same data. Should some members need a different set of data for their work, they should be considered to have in a different team.

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