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NATS Notification Settings

NATS Streaming Deprecated

NATS Streaming is deprecated. Migrate to JetStream instead.

The related MinIO configuration options and environment variables are deprecated.

This page documents settings for configuring an NATS service as a target for Bucket Notifications. See Publish Events to NATS for a tutorial on using these settings.

You can establish or modify settings by defining:

  • an environment variable on the host system prior to starting or restarting the MinIO Server. Refer to your operating system’s documentation for how to define an environment variable.

  • a configuration setting using mc admin config set.

  • a configuration setting using the MinIO Console’s Administrator > Settings pages.

If you define both an environment variable and the similar configuration setting, MinIO uses the environment variable value.

Some settings have only an environment variable or a configuration setting, but not both.

Important

Each configuration setting controls fundamental MinIO behavior and functionality. MinIO strongly recommends testing configuration changes in a lower environment, such as DEV or QA, before applying to production.

You can specify multiple NATS service endpoints by appending a unique identifier _ID for each set of related NATS settings on to the top level key.

For example, the following commands set two distinct NATS service endpoints as PRIMARY and SECONDARY respectively:

export MINIO_NOTIFY_NATS_ENABLE_PRIMARY="on"
export MINIO_NOTIFY_NATS_ADDRESS_PRIMARY="nats-endpoint.example.net:4222"

export MINIO_NOTIFY_NATS_ENABLE_SECONDARY="on"
export MINIO_NOTIFY_NATS_ADDRESS_SECONDARY="nats-endpoint.example.net:4222"

With these settings, MINIO_NOTIFY_NATS_ENABLE_PRIMARY indicates the environment variable is associated to an NATS service endpoint with ID of PRIMARY.

mc admin config set notify_nats:primary \
   address="nats-endpoint.example.com:4222" \
   subject="minioevents" \
   [ARGUMENT=VALUE ...]

mc admin config set notify_nats:secondary \
   address="nats-endpoint.example.com:4222" \
   subject="minioevents" \
   [ARGUMENT=VALUE ...]

Required

Specify on to enable publishing bucket notifications to an NATS service endpoint.

Defaults to off.

The top-level configuration key for defining an NATS service endpoint for use with MinIO bucket notifications.

Use mc admin config set to set or update an NATS service endpoint. The address and subject arguments are required for each target. Specify additional optional arguments as a whitespace (" ")-delimited list.

mc admin config set notify_nats \
  address="nats-endpoint.example.com:4222" \
  subject="minioevents" \
  [ARGUMENT="VALUE"] ... \

Required

Specify the NATS service endpoint to which MinIO publishes bucket events. For example, nats-endpoint.example.com:4222.

Changed in version RELEASE.2023-05-27T05-56-19Z: MinIO checks the health of the specified URL (if it is resolvable and reachable) prior to adding the target. MinIO no longer blocks adding new notification targets if existing targets are offline.

Required

Specify the subscription to which MinIO associates events published to the NATS endpoint.

Optional

Specify the username for connecting to the NATS service endpoint.

Optional

Specify the passport for connecting to the NATS service endpoint.

Changed in version RELEASE.2023-06-23T20-26-00Z: MinIO redacts this value when returned as part of mc admin config get.

Optional

Specify the token for connecting to the NATS service endpoint.

Changed in version RELEASE.2023-06-23T20-26-00Z: MinIO redacts this value when returned as part of mc admin config get.

Optional

Specify the to the user credentials file <https://docs.nats.io/using-nats/developer/connecting/creds> to use to connect to the NATS service endpoint.

Optional

Specify on to enable TLS connectivity to the NATS service endpoint.

Optional

Enables or disables TLS verification of the NATS service endpoint TLS certificates.

  • Specify on to disable TLS verification (Default).

  • Specify off to enable TLS verification.

Optional

Specify the duration interval for client pings to the NATS server. MinIO supports the following time units:

  • s - seconds, "60s"

  • m - minutes, "5m"

  • h - hours, "1h"

  • d - days, "1d"

Optional

Specify on to enable JetStream support for streaming events to a NATS JetStream service endpoint.

Deprecated

Optional

Specify on to enable asynchronous publishing of events to the NATS service endpoint.

Deprecated

Optional

Specify on to enable asynchronous publishing of events to the NATS service endpoint.

Deprecated

Optional

Specify the number of messages to publish without waiting for an ACK response from the NATS service endpoint.

Deprecated

Optional

Specify the unique ID for the NATS streaming cluster.

Optional

Specify the path to the Certificate Authority chain used to sign the NATS service endpoint TLS certificates.

Optional

Specify the path to the client certificate to use for performing mTLS authentication to the NATS service endpoint.

Optional

Specify the path to the client private key to use for performing mTLS authentication to the NATS service endpoint.

Optional

Specify the directory path to enable MinIO’s persistent event store for undelivered messages, such as /opt/minio/events.

MinIO stores undelivered events in the specified store while the NATS server/broker is offline and replays the stored events when connectivity resumes.

Optional

Specify the maximum limit for undelivered messages. Defaults to 100000.

Optional

Specify a comment to associate with the NATS configuration.