This documentation has an index for AI agents at /llms.txt. A Markdown version of this page is available at https://explorer.opentelemetry.io/java-agent/instrumentation/nats-2.17.md.

NATS Client

OpenTelemetry Java agent instrumentation

This instrumentation enables messaging spans for NATS message producers and consumers.

  • Name: nats-2.17
  • Scope: io.opentelemetry.nats-2.17
  • Target versions: io.nats:jnats:[2.17.2,)
  • Library: https://nats.io/

Telemetry

  • Span attributes: messaging.client_id, messaging.destination.name, messaging.destination.temporary, messaging.message.body.size, messaging.operation, messaging.system

Configuration

OptionTypeDefaultDescription
otel.instrumentation.messaging.experimental.capture-headerslistA comma-separated list of header names to capture as span attributes.

Data

  • JSON: /data/javaagent/instrumentations/nats-2.17/nats-2.17-286f295014e4.json
  • Explore: /java-agent/instrumentation/nats-2.17