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Icinga Web 2 is a powerful PHP framework for web applications that comes in a clean and reduced design. Icinga Web 2 is a powerful PHP framework for web applications that comes in a clean and reduced design.
It's fast, responsive, accessible and easily extensible with modules. It's fast, responsive, accessible and easily extensible with modules.
## The monitoring module <a id="about-monitoring"></a>
This is the core module for most Icinga Web 2 users.
It provides an intuitive user interface for monitoring with Icinga 2.
Especially there are lots of list and detail views (e.g. for hosts and services)
you can sort and filter depending on what you want to see.
You can also control the monitoring process itself by sending external commands to Icinga.
Most such actions (like rescheduling a check) can be done with just a single click.
More details about this module can be found in [this chapter](../modules/monitoring/doc/01-About.md#monitoring-module-about).
## Installation <a id="about-installation"></a> ## Installation <a id="about-installation"></a>
Icinga Web 2 can be installed easily from packages from the official package repositories. Icinga Web 2 can be installed easily from packages from the official package repositories.
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See [here](07-Preferences.md#preferences) for more information about a user's preferences See [here](07-Preferences.md#preferences) for more information about a user's preferences
and how to configure their storage type. and how to configure their storage type.
## Documentation <a id="about-documentation"></a> ### The monitoring module <a id="about-monitoring"></a>
> **Note for Icinga DB Users**
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> This module is only for the IDO backend. Use [Icinga DB Web](https://github.com/Icinga/icingadb-web) instead.
This is the core module for most Icinga Web 2 users.
It provides an intuitive user interface for monitoring with Icinga 2.
There are lots of list and detail views (e.g. for hosts and services)
you can sort and filter depending on what you want to see.
You can also control the monitoring process itself by sending external commands to Icinga.
Most such actions (like rescheduling a check) can be done with just a single click in the UI.
More details about this module can be found in [this chapter](../modules/monitoring/doc/01-About.md#monitoring-module-about).
### Documentation <a id="about-documentation"></a>
With the documentation module you can read the documentation of the framework (and any module) directly in the user interface. With the documentation module you can read the documentation of the framework (and any module) directly in the user interface.