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 ![tiger](assets/TelegrafTiger.png "tiger")
 
-[![Contribute](https://img.shields.io/badge/Contribute%20To%20Telegraf-orange.svg?logo=influx&style=for-the-badge)](#Contributing) [![Slack Status](https://img.shields.io/badge/slack-join_chat-white.svg?logo=slack&style=for-the-badge)](https://www.influxdata.com/slack) [![Circle CI](https://circleci.com/gh/influxdata/telegraf.svg?style=svg)](https://circleci.com/gh/influxdata/telegraf) [![GoDoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/influxdata/telegraf?status.svg)](https://godoc.org/github.com/influxdata/telegraf) [![Docker pulls](https://img.shields.io/docker/pulls/library/telegraf.svg)](https://hub.docker.com/_/telegraf/)
+[![Contribute](https://img.shields.io/badge/Contribute%20To%20Telegraf-orange.svg?logo=influx&style=for-the-badge)](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) [![Slack Status](https://img.shields.io/badge/slack-join_chat-white.svg?logo=slack&style=for-the-badge)](https://www.influxdata.com/slack) [![Circle CI](https://circleci.com/gh/influxdata/telegraf.svg?style=svg)](https://circleci.com/gh/influxdata/telegraf) [![GoDoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/influxdata/telegraf?status.svg)](https://godoc.org/github.com/influxdata/telegraf) [![Docker pulls](https://img.shields.io/docker/pulls/library/telegraf.svg)](https://hub.docker.com/_/telegraf/)
 
 Telegraf is an agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics. Based on a
 plugin system to enable developers in the community to easily add support for additional