What is the best practice for tenant-level node filtering/grouping admin view (multi-tenant setup)

Question

Hi all,

I'm working on a multi-tenant SolarWinds setup and would like some guidance on improving how admin view and filter nodes by tenant.

Current setup:

* Nodes are tagged with a custom property (e.g., Tenant) to identify which customer/tenant they belong to.
* Account limitations are applied at the account level so each tenant's users only see their own nodes.

What I'm trying to achieve:

As an admin with visibility across all tenants, I need to:

* View a consolidated list of all nodes, grouped/organized by tenant.
* Apply a filter (e.g., a dropdown or search filter) on any dashboard/view to quickly narrow down nodes to a specific tenant on demand.

Questions:

* Is there a recommended way to build a dashboard/view (e.g., using a custom query resource, table widget, or Group By) that lists nodes and lets me filter dynamically by the Tenant custom property?
* Has anyone implemented a tenant-selector filter (similar to a dropdown) on a dashboard that dynamically updates the node list based on the selected tenant?

Any examples, screenshots, documents, or links to existing dashboards/resources would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

kcrichter · Answer

Hey, I have a similar setup to the OP. How is this best done on modern dashboards?

vinay.by · Answer

Hello @akshayntil

There are several ways to do this (Groups, Modern dashboard etc).

The simplest is as mentioned below:

* As you mentioned you have a custom property which has the tenant, you don't need to build anything, you can just goto Manage Nodes - > Group By Filter → Tenant (Select your custom property) and you can view all nodes for each tenant.
*  If you want it on a dashboard, if you are using classic dashboards, on your existing summary dashboards, add "All Nodes - Tree" resource, Edit, select filters on Tenant (custom property) that will be your first filter and Second Filter select Status (which will populate the devices by status under that Tenant). You can do the same on modern dashboards too in a similar fashion - but that doesnt provide a tree like drop its a little different. If you are looking for a modern dashboard and not classic let me know.