Install and Run NATS Streaming Server

In this tutorial you install and run the NATS Streaming server (nats-streaming-server). You can follow this same procedure anytime you want to run the NATS Streaming server.

Install the NATS Streaming server

There are numerous ways to install the NATS Streaming server.

GitHub releases

The latest official release binaries are always available on the GitHub releases page. The following platforms are available:

Linux (x86, x86_64, ARM)
Windows (x86, x86_64)
macOS

The following methods may also be used. Please note that these methods may not install the latest released version:

Go

Make sure your Go environment is set up

% go get github.com/nats-io/nats-streaming-server

Note that this method may not install the latest released version.

Docker Hub

The latest official Docker image is always available on Docker Hub.

Windows

On Windows, the NATS Streaming server can also be installed via Chocolatey:

% choco install nats-streaming-server

macOS

On macOS, the NATS Streaming server can be installed via Homebrew:

% brew install nats-streaming-server

Start the NATS Streaming server

You can invoke the NATS Streaming server binary, with no options and no configuration file, to start a server with acceptable standalone defaults (no authentication, no clustering).

% nats-streaming-server

When the server starts successfully, you will see that the NATS Streaming server listens for client connections on TCP Port 4222:

[18085] 2016/10/31 13:11:44.059012 [INF] Starting nats-streaming-server[test-cluster] version 0.3.1
[18085] 2016/10/31 13:11:44.059830 [INF] Starting nats-server version 0.9.4
[18085] 2016/10/31 13:11:44.061544 [INF] Listening for client connections on 0.0.0.0:4222
[18085] 2016/10/31 13:11:44.061966 [INF] Server is ready
[18085] 2016/10/31 13:11:44.396819 [INF] STAN: Message store is MEMORY
[18085] 2016/10/31 13:11:44.396832 [INF] STAN: --------- Store Limits ---------
[18085] 2016/10/31 13:11:44.396837 [INF] STAN: Channels:                  100 *
[18085] 2016/10/31 13:11:44.396839 [INF] STAN: -------- channels limits -------
[18085] 2016/10/31 13:11:44.396842 [INF] STAN:   Subscriptions:          1000 *
[18085] 2016/10/31 13:11:44.396844 [INF] STAN:   Messages     :       1000000 *
[18085] 2016/10/31 13:11:44.396855 [INF] STAN:   Bytes        :     976.56 MB *
[18085] 2016/10/31 13:11:44.396858 [INF] STAN:   Age          :     unlimited *
[18085] 2016/10/31 13:11:44.396859 [INF] STAN: --------------------------------

Start the NATS Streaming Server with NATS monitoring enabled (optional)

The NATS Streaming server exposes the monitoring interface of its embedded NATS Server (nats-server) on port 8222.

% nats-streaming-server -m 8222

If you run the NATS Streaming server with monitoring enabled, you see the following messages:

[18122] 2016/10/31 13:13:10.048663 [INF] Starting nats-streaming-server[test-cluster] version 0.3.1
[18122] 2016/10/31 13:13:10.048843 [INF] Starting nats-server version 0.9.4
[18122] 2016/10/31 13:13:10.048890 [INF] Starting http monitor on 0.0.0.0:8222
[18122] 2016/10/31 13:13:10.048968 [INF] Listening for client connections on 0.0.0.0:4222
[18122] 2016/10/31 13:13:10.048992 [INF] Server is ready
[18122] 2016/10/31 13:13:10.388282 [INF] STAN: Message store is MEMORY
[18122] 2016/10/31 13:13:10.388301 [INF] STAN: --------- Store Limits ---------
[18122] 2016/10/31 13:13:10.388309 [INF] STAN: Channels:                  100 *
[18122] 2016/10/31 13:13:10.388312 [INF] STAN: -------- channels limits -------
[18122] 2016/10/31 13:13:10.388316 [INF] STAN:   Subscriptions:          1000 *
[18122] 2016/10/31 13:13:10.388319 [INF] STAN:   Messages     :       1000000 *
[18122] 2016/10/31 13:13:10.388333 [INF] STAN:   Bytes        :     976.56 MB *
[18122] 2016/10/31 13:13:10.388338 [INF] STAN:   Age          :     unlimited *
[18122] 2016/10/31 13:13:10.388341 [INF] STAN: --------------------------------

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