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Tool Chain Management user interface
Published On Nov 04, 2025 - 1:25 PM

Tool Chain Management user interface

Navigate and understand the Tool Chain user interface to optimize your use of the service.
The Tool Chain Management 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 Console.
  • Search bar:
     Type the first few characters of a configured Tool Chain Management 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 user name 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.

Tool Chain Management applications

An application in Tool Chain Management 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 DevOps 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 Tool Chain Management, 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.

Tool Chain Management 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 DevOps phases in one column (
DevOps 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
).
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