## Welcome to the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Community!

If you’re an open source observability user or contributor, we invite you to get involved. You can contribute in the following ways:

* Ask a question by filing an [issue](https://github.com/aws-observability/aws-otel-community/issues).
* File a bug by filing a [pull request (PR)](https://github.com/aws-observability/aws-otel-community/pulls).
* Contribute an enhancement or a feature which you need and maintainers will be happy to code review. You can open an issue to discuss the design of your proposed enhancement and then file a PR.
* If you’re just getting started, we welcome you to get started with issues tagged as “good first issues” and join [Gitter](https://gitter.im/aws-otel-distro/community) to ask maintainers and other developers any questions you may have.
* Join the awesome upstream OpenTelemetry project [community](https://github.com/open-telemetry/community). Participate in the OpenTelemetry [SIG meetings](https://github.com/open-telemetry/community#calendar) where observability experts meet and discuss the OpenTelemetry specification and implementation of observability components. And the code is open source - so contribute to OpenTelemetry!

## AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) Public Preview Program

All preview features and AWS services integrations available for ADOT are supported under the guidelines of the ADOT [Public Preview Program](https://github.com/aws-observability/aws-otel-community/tree/master/preview-program).

## ADOT Technical Documentation Site

The [ADOT technical documentation](https://aws-otel.github.io/docs/introduction) is also an open source documentation site hosted on GitHub. This means you can [file issues](https://github.com/aws-otel/aws-otel.github.io/issues) to report documentation errors and updates. You can also [file PRs](https://github.com/aws-otel/aws-otel.github.io/pulls) to submit doc fixes and updates. Please take a look at the ADOT site [developer guide](https://github.com/aws-otel/aws-otel.github.io) to make changes and file PRs.

## Support

Please note that as per policy, we're providing support via GitHub on a best effort basis. However, if you have AWS Enterprise Support you can create a ticket and we will provide direct support within the respective SLAs.

## Security issue notifications
If you discover a potential security issue in this project we ask that you notify AWS/Amazon Security via our [vulnerability reporting page](http://aws.amazon.com/security/vulnerability-reporting/). Please do **not** create a public github issue.

## License

This project is licensed under the Apache-2.0 License.