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   1 # About Icinga 2 <a id="about-icinga2"></a>
   2
   3 ## What is Icinga 2?  <a id="what-is-icinga2"></a>
   4
   5 [Icinga 2](https://icinga.com/products/icinga-2/) is a monitoring system which checks
   6 the availability of your network resources, notifies users of outages, and generates
   7 performance data for reporting.
   8
   9 Scalable and extensible, Icinga 2 can monitor large, complex environments across
  10 multiple locations.
  11
  12 Icinga 2 as core requires [Icinga Web 2](https://icinga.com/products/icinga-web-2/)
  13 on top in your Icinga Stack.
  14
  15
  16 ![Icinga 2 Distributed Master and Satellites with Agents](images/distributed-monitoring/icinga2_distributed_monitoring_scenarios_master_satellites_agents.png)
  17
  18 ## Start with Icinga <a id="start-icinga"></a>
  19
  20 * [Installation](02-installation.md#installation)
  21 * [Monitoring Basics](03-monitoring-basics.md#monitoring-basics)
  22 * [Configuration](04-configuration.md#configuration)
  23 * [Distributed Monitoring](06-distributed-monitoring.md#distributed-monitoring)
  24 * [Addons, Integrations and Features](13-addons.md#addons)
  25 * [Troubleshooting](15-troubleshooting.md#troubleshooting)
  26 * [Upgrading](16-upgrading-icinga-2.md#upgrading-icinga-2)
  27
  28 Once Icinga Core and Web are running in your distributed environment,
  29 make sure to check out the many [Icinga modules](https://icinga.com/docs/)
  30 for even better monitoring.
  31
  32 ## What's New <a id="whats-new"></a>
  33
  34 You can follow the development and release milestones on [GitHub](https://github.com/icinga/icinga2/issues).
  35 Please follow our release announcements on [icinga.com](https://icinga.com/blog/) too.
  36
  37 ## Support <a id="support"></a>
  38
  39 Check the project website at [icinga.com](https://icinga.com) for status updates. Join the
  40 [community channels](https://icinga.com/community/) for questions
  41 or get in touch for [professional support](https://icinga.com/subscription/).
  42
  43 ## Contribute  <a id="contribute"></a>
  44
  45 There are many ways to contribute to Icinga -- whether it be sending patches,
  46 testing, reporting bugs or reviewing and updating the documentation. Every
  47 contribution is appreciated!
  48
  49 Please continue reading in the [Contributing chapter](https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md).
  50
  51 ### Security Issues <a id="security"></a>
  52
  53 For reporting security issues please visit [this page](https://icinga.com/contact/security/).
  54
  55 ### Icinga 2 Development <a id="development-info"></a>
  56
  57 The Git repository is located on [GitHub](https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2).
  58
  59 Icinga 2 is written in C++ and can be built on Linux/Unix and Windows.
  60 Read more about development builds in the [development chapter](21-development.md#development).
  61
  62
  63 ## License <a id="license"></a>
  64
  65 Icinga 2 and the Icinga 2 documentation are licensed under the terms of the GNU
  66 General Public License Version 2. You will find a copy of this license in the
  67 LICENSE file included in the source package.
  68