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LDAP integration - automatic retrieve list of users and groups

It would be a useful feature that Instana, after the integration with LDAP, would automatically retrieve all users and groups from the LDAP according to the filter given in the LDAP configuration. This way administration of new users would be m...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 5 Functionality already exists

Support for AWS Cognito User Pool Identity Provider (IdP)

We are in discussion with potential customers that want support for AWS Congnito User Pools. We already support several IdPs and this is a very popular one we currently don't support. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cognito/latest/developerguide/cogni...
9 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Functionality already exists

Authentication options

Since GitHub has been integrated and used in Instana, we can have GitHub as one of the authentication method in Instana. This process can avoid multiple AD/SSO configurations in tools/applications.
7 months ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Functionality already exists

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

Map Groups with SAML (Okta)

We have SSO setup for the Instana Backend using SAML with Okta. We would like to be able to map groups provided by the Idp to Instana roles/groups. The ability to map our internal LDAP groups to Instana groups would give us the ability to apply ac...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control / Security and Compliance 2 Functionality already exists

Role Based Access Control - Add Functionallity to be able to limit access to specific Platforms (Vmware, HMC)

Hello.We would like to limit user access to see only specific applications and hosts. We create group and we can exclude/include scope for website, applications, mobileapps and kubernetes.But we cannot exclude Platforms view for HMC and Vmware. Re...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Functionality already exists

Give Teams option to hide their services & infrastructure from other teams, in case of sensitive data (Deny-listing)

Give Teams option to hide there services & infrastructure from other teams, in case of sensitive data (Blacklisting) Futher improving the granularity of the RBAC in Instana
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to map Google SSO groups to Instana groups

Ability to map Google SSO groups to Instana groups
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 3 Functionality already exists

Add using MS Active Directory user groups for managing user acces.

Give different access to the Instana application for members of Active Directory user group and not for specific user. Requested by Banks Security team
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Functionality already exists

RBAC - Add support for AD Group to Instana Group mapping

The customer would like to manage users by linking AD Groups to Groups within Instana so that I do not have to recreate teams and roles which already exist within Active Directory.
about 4 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Functionality already exists