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+## Submitting issues
+
+If you have questions about how to install or use Nextcloud, please direct these to our [forum][forum]. We are also available on [IRC][irc].
+
+### Short version
+
+ * The [**issue template can be found here**][template]. Please always use the issue template when reporting issues.
+
+### Guidelines
+* Please search the existing issues first, it's likely that your issue was already reported or even fixed.
+  - Go to one of the repositories, click "issues" and type any word in the top search/command bar.
+  - You can also filter by appending e. g. "state:open" to the search string.
+  - More info on [search syntax within github](https://help.github.com/articles/searching-issues)
+* This repository ([Monitoring](https://github.com/nextcloud/serverinfo/issues)) is *only* for issues within the Monitoring code.
+* __SECURITY__: Report any potential security bug to us via [our HackerOne page](https://hackerone.com/nextcloud) or security@nextcloud.com following our [security policy](https://nextcloud.com/security/) instead of filing an issue in our bug tracker
+* Report the issue using our [template][template], it includes all the information we need to track down the issue.
+
+Help us to maximize the effort we can spend fixing issues and adding new features, by not reporting duplicate issues.
+
+[template]: https://raw.github.com/nextcloud/serverinfo/master/.github/issue_template.md
+[forum]: https://help.nextcloud.com/
+[irc]: https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=nextcloud
+
+### Contribute Code and translations
+Please check [server's contribution guidelines](https://github.com/nextcloud/server/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#contributing-to-source-code) for further information about contributing code and translations.
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+<!--
+Thanks for reporting issues back to Nextcloud! This is the issue tracker of the Monitoring app, if you have any support question please check out https://help.nextcloud.com/
+
+Find other components at https://github.com/nextcloud/core/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#guidelines
+
+To make it possible for us to help you please fill out below information carefully.
+-->
+### Steps to reproduce
+1.
+2.
+3.
+
+### Expected behaviour
+Tell us what should happen
+
+### Actual behaviour
+Tell us what happens instead
+
+### Server configuration
+<!--
+You can use the Issue Template application to prefill most of the required information: https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/issuetemplate
+-->
+
+**Operating system**:
+
+**Web server:**
+
+**Database:**
+
+**PHP version:**
+
+**Nextcloud version:** (see Nextcloud admin page)
+
+**Where did you install Nextcloud from:**
+
+
+**List of activated apps:**
+
+```
+If you have access to your command line run e.g.:
+sudo -u www-data php occ app:list
+from within your Nextcloud installation folder
+```
+
+**Nextcloud configuration:**
+
+```
+If you have access to your command line run e.g.:
+sudo -u www-data php occ config:list system
+from within your Nextcloud installation folder
+
+or
+
+Insert your config.php content here
+Make sure to remove all sensitive content such as passwords. (e.g. database password, passwordsalt, secret, smtp password, …)
+```
+
+### Client configuration
+**Browser:**
+
+**Operating system:**
+
+### Logs
+
+#### Nextcloud log (data/owncloud.log)
+```
+Insert your Nextcloud log here
+```
+
+#### Browser log
+```
+Insert your browser log here, this could for example include:
+
+a) The javascript console log
+b) The network log
+c) ...
+```