Contributing to Beats

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Contributing to Beats

The Beats are open source and we love to receive contributions from our community โ€” 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 in the Beats Developer Guide.