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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

{
  "<name>": {
    "type": "nats",
    "address" : "nats-server.example.org",
    "port" : "4222",
    "subject" : "subject"
  }
}
  • 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

Debugging

  • Install NATS server and command line client

  • Start NATS server

    nats-server --net nats-server.example.org --port 4222

  • Check NATS server works as expected

    nats --server=nats-server-db.example.org:4222 server check

  • Use NATS command line client to subscribe to all messages

    nats --server=nats-server-db.example.org:4222 sub ">"

  • Use NATS command line client to send message to NATS receiver

    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"