Navigating the TrackMe UI — in depth

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This is an in-depth visual tour of the TrackMe user interface. For the conceptual introduction, start with Overview and How it works. This page walks the Virtual Tenant interface, the Tenant Home, the three-dot menus, bulk editing, theme preferences, and hiding tenants.

Note

TrackMe Design

• This page describes the essential concepts and design principles behind TrackMe’s user interfaces.

• TrackMe 2.3.0 introduced a complete rewrite of the user interfaces, built on Splunk’s native React UI.

• It covers the key things to know to navigate the interface and use its features.

TrackMe has two primary interfaces: the Virtual Tenant interface — the landing page where you see and manage all your tenants — and the Tenant Home — the rich per-tenant screen where you work with entities. A consistent three-dot menu exposes actions everywhere, and a per-user theme (dark or light) applies across both. This page tours each in turn.

The Virtual Tenant interface

When you open TrackMe, the default page is the Virtual Tenant interface. It gives an overview of your Virtual Tenants and the actions you can perform on them — such as creating, managing, or entering a specific tenant.

The home page at a glance

The key interactions of the Virtual Tenant interface:

main screen:

tenant overview:

The three-dot menu

The three vertical dots in the top right of the screen are the main selector menu. They give quick access to the main actions, such as creating a new Virtual Tenant:

As a core design principle, every action in TrackMe — whether on a Virtual Tenant, an entity, a chart, and so on — is available through this same three-dot menu, placed on the relevant element.

Opening a Virtual Tenant overview

Double-click a Virtual Tenant card to open its overview — a modal that summarises the tenant and offers actions such as managing or entering it.

The tenant actions menu

Click the tenant’s three-dot icon to open the menu specific to that tenant. The available actions depend on your privileges and the tenant’s status.

Reviewing entities (read-only)

From the Virtual Tenant overview you can browse the tenant’s entities in read-only mode. Many actions are available — for instance, expand an entity to review detailed information and mini-charts.

Hiding a Virtual Tenant

You can hide a specific Virtual Tenant from the interface (tenant menu → Personal preferences → Hide this tenant); the choice is kept in your browser with your other personal preferences and affects no one else. In a large environment this is useful when a user has access to a tenant (through RBAC) but does not need to see it in the UI. A hidden tenant’s menu offers Unhide this tenant, and once at least one tenant is hidden the Settings panel shows a Virtual Tenants visibility switch to display them all again.

The Tenant Home interface

The Tenant Home is the main interface for managing a tenant’s entities — a rich screen whose interactions vary by component type. You can reach it several ways from the Virtual Tenant interface:

Key interactions

The key interactions in the Tenant Home (the exact view varies by component type):

key interactions from the entity view:

Entity and tenant menus

As everywhere in TrackMe, actions are reached through three-dot menus (the exact items depend on the component type):

the tenant menu:

the entity menu from the top selector:

the entity menu from the entity table:

Bulk editing

The Tenant Home supports dynamic bulk editing: select one or more entities and the bulk action button appears automatically.

Themes & personal preferences

TrackMe has two colour schemes — Dark and Light — applied globally across all interfaces. Each user’s choice is kept in a browser cookie with their other personal preferences; until they choose, the administrators’ default applies (dark after installation).

Setting your theme

From the Virtual Tenant interface, a Tenant Home or Topology Studio, click the settings icon (the sliders button) at the top right to open the Settings panel, then pick Light or Dark under Color Scheme. The same panel holds the other personal preferences — auto-refresh, the tenant card detail level, and on a Tenant Home the layout of that tenant’s page:

TrackMe in Light mode:

Every preference, the administrators’ defaults and how to reset them are described in Personal preferences.

See also

• What is TrackMe? and How TrackMe works — the conceptual introduction.

• Virtual Tenants & Access — creating, managing, and securing Virtual Tenants.

• Monitoring Components — the per-component views the Tenant Home adapts to.