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The Nats module uses Nats monitoring server APIs to collect metrics.
The default metricsets are stats, connections, routes and subscriptions. The connection, route, and jetstream metricsets can be enabled to collect additional metrics.
The NATS module is tested with NATS 2.2.6 and 2.11.x. Versions in between are expected to be compatible as well.
The Nats module comes with a predefined dashboard. For example: