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.

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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; the preference is stored per-user and persists. 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. Once one or more tenants are hidden, the three-dot menu adapts to offer the show/hide action accordingly.

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 supports two themes — Dark mode and Light mode — applied globally across all interfaces. Each user’s choice is stored persistently in a browser cookie. Administrators can set the default theme for users landing in TrackMe for the first time; after installation the default is dark mode.

Setting your theme

From either the Virtual Tenant interface or the Tenant Home, click the settings icon in the top right of the screen to open your preferences:

from the Virtual Tenant interface:

from the Tenant Home interface:

TrackMe in Light mode:

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.