cc-metric-collector/receivers/natsReceiver.md

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## `nats` receiver
The `nats` receiver can be used receive metrics from the NATS network. The `nats` receiver subscribes to the topic `database` and listens on `address` and `port` for metrics in the InfluxDB line protocol.
### Configuration structure
```json
{
"<name>": {
"type": "nats",
"address" : "nats-server.example.org",
"port" : "4222",
"subject" : "subject",
"user": "natsuser",
"password": "natssecret",
"nkey_file": "/path/to/nkey_file"
}
}
```
- `type`: makes the receiver a `nats` receiver
- `address`: Address of the NATS control server
- `port`: Port of the NATS control server
- `subject`: Subscribes to this subject and receive metrics
- `user`: Connect to nats using this user
- `password`: Connect to nats using this password
- `nkey_file`: Path to credentials file with NKEY
### Debugging
- Install NATS server and command line client
- Start NATS server
```bash
nats-server --net nats-server.example.org --port 4222
```
- Check NATS server works as expected
```bash
nats --server=nats-server-db.example.org:4222 server check
```
- Use NATS command line client to subscribe to all messages
```bash
nats --server=nats-server-db.example.org:4222 sub ">"
```
- Use NATS command line client to send message to NATS receiver
```bash
nats --server=nats-server-db.example.org:4222 pub subject \
"myMetric,hostname=myHost,type=hwthread,type-id=0,unit=Hz value=400000i 1694777161164284635
myMetric,hostname=myHost,type=hwthread,type-id=1,unit=Hz value=400001i 1694777161164284635"
```