Please post all questions and issues first on
[https://discuss.elastic.co/c/beats](https://discuss.elastic.co/c/beats)
before opening a Github Issue.

# Contributing to Beats

The Beats are open source and we love to receive contributions from our
community — you!

There are many ways to contribute, from writing tutorials or blog posts,
improving the documentation, submitting bug reports and feature requests or
writing code for implementing a whole new protocol.

If you want to contribute to the Beats project, you can start by reading
the [contributing guidelines](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/devguide/current/beats-contributing.html)
in the _Beats Developer Guide_.

