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title: Contribute
description: 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...
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/2423/reference/beats/heartbeat/contributing-to-beats
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# Contribute
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 that implements a whole new protocol, module, or Beat.
See [Contribute to Beats](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/2423/extend/beats)  for your one-stop shop for everything related to developing code for the Beats project.