The Kolide Desktop App has two parts: the Menu Bar App and the Kolide Agent.

Kolide Agent

The Kolide Agent is the background process that runs Checks and communicates with the Kolide servers.

For an overview of the Kolide Agent and how it works, see About Kolide - The Kolide Agent

Kolide Menu Bar App

The Menu Bar App displays an unobtrusive menu bar icon that gives you an at-a-glance indicator of your device status.

Platform Support

The Kolide Menu Bar App is available on macOS, Windows, and Linux (X11 and Wayland-based display servers).

Unless explicitly configured otherwise, the Kolide Menu Bar App automatically appears shortly after installing the agent.

Status Icons

The Kolide Menu Bar App displays the logo and an optional accompanying badge to communicate the current registration status and health of the device. The icon will be in one of four possible states:

• Semitransparent Logo - Your device is not registered. For registration instructions, see Setup - Register - Registering your first computer.

• Logo (No Badge) - The device is passing all Checks.

• Logo + Blue Circle Badge - The device is failing a Check that uses the “Notify Only” remediation strategy.

• Logo + Yellow Warning Badge - The device is failing a Check that will block authentication soon.

• Logo + Red “X” - The device is registered but is failing a Check that is blocking the device from authenticating.

Viewing the menu

Clicking the menu bar icon will give you further useful information: if your device has Issues, you can navigate directly to their Fix Instructions.

Additionally, if your device Will Block, the menu will display when the grace period ends.

Notifications

In addition to the Menu Bar icon and menu, the Kolide Desktop App also delivers notifications when your device’s state changes.

If your device status becomes Blocked you’ll get a notification.

If you’ve been running with all systems green, but a newly enabled check finds an issue on your device, we’ll be sure to let you know about that as well!