Tool Chain Management user interface
2 min
navigate and understand the user interface to optimize your use of the service the landing page contains a list of all the applications that have been configured for the service the page includes the following elements bread crumbs observe the convenient navigation guide header understand your location within the service search bar type the first few characters of a configured application name to return a list of matching application names filter click to display a list configured applications and select those you want to view without the distraction of the full list of applications + configure new application click to configure a new application, associating specific tools with devops phases of one or more services configured applications table review the list of applications (rows) and the following data regarding them (columns) application name the unique identifier provided by the user configuring the application created by the username of the user who created the application last updated the date and time the data was last updated last status refresh the date and time the health (status) of the service (application) was reported applications an application in refers to a service, in your it estate, that is supported by a specific collection of tools for each phase of the devops lifecycle each application in the table can be expanded to expose the eight phases of the devops lifecycle displaying the tools your team uses to support the service in each of those phases example you have access to universal workflow , a microservice provisioned by your devops team the team uses the following tools to support the service at each phase plan azure boards develop github build github actions and jfrog aritifactory secure sonarqube and codeql test qmetry deploy argocd monitor grafana operate datadog and terraform using , you have a centralized view of the entire suite of tools required to support the microservice this capability of a single pane of glass provides coherent observability, eliminating the requirement of multiple consoles application features and functions to the left of each application name in the application table, is an expand/collapse chevron that you can use to display the application composition expanding the application, displays the eight phases in one column ( phase ) and the tools associated with each phase in a second column ( tools ) if the application has been configured without a tool for any phase, the tools column is blank for that phase the tools listed in the tools column are represented as icons and contain a hot link to the tool if single sign on is enabled for the tool, clicking the link navigates you to your account in the tool and you can view data for that tool if single sign on is not enabled the service navigates you to the external tool home page you also have the option of editing each phase to add and delete tools to that end, you can display an overflow menu by clicking the vertical ellipsis at the far right of the tools column within an application the menu contains an edit option click edit to edit the tools listed in the tools column for that phase, for example plan )