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_.