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+User Guide
+==========
+
+This guide wants to help you understand the basic usage of the module.
+And how to access its data quickly.
+
+To understand the status behavior, see the [chapter about behavior](02-Behavior.md).
+
+## Finding problems
+
+Unhandled problems can be identified based on color saturation of the tiles.
+
+In addition counters show you how many states of what kind lay below.
+
+![Unhandled colors](screenshots/colors-unhandled.png)
+
+![Handled colors](screenshots/colors-handled.png)
+
+## Drilling down
+
+When you click on tiles in the topmost tile view, you drill down into a
+tree view of that tile.
+
+The tree view is collapsing everything that is in an OK state. So you the
+problems first.
+
+![](screenshots/tiles-tree-problems.png)
+
+In this view everything can be expanded via the arrow handle or a click
+on the title area.
+
+Deeper branches can be opened in a new view by clicking on the title text, but
+this is only needed to filter the shown data.
+
+Every Icinga status object, a host, service or hostgroup is a single tile
+here.
+
+Counters are meant to give you an indication about how many problems, or
+even objects are there.
+
+## Viewing Icinga details
+
+By clicking on an Icinga tile you get dropped into the Monitoring module,
+which allows you to see all details and interact with the object (e.g. for
+acknowledging the problem).
+
+Clicking on a service ![tile](screenshots/tile-service.png) will bring you
+service detail view, same goes for hosts.
+
+![](screenshots/tree-service.png)
+
+The hostgroup ![tile](screenshots/tile-hostgroup.png) gives 2 options,
+default will take you to a service overview for that hostgroup, sorted by problems.
+
+While clicking on the `X hosts` link in the tile brings you an overview
+over hosts in that group.
+
+![](screenshots/tree-hostgroup.png)
+
+## Note about caching
+
+Please be aware that the data display in Top Level View is cached, for 60
+seconds by default.
+
+Latest state changes will only be reflected after that caching time.