troubleshoot-nats

What problem does it solve?

It helps you rapidly triage NATS outages and performance pathologies by turning symptoms like slow consumer cascades, resource exhaustion, JetStream Raft instability, OOM/memory pressure, and silent message loss into an evidence-based diagnostic path.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Evidence-driven triage: Guides an agent through a structured diagnostic tree tailored to NATS failure archetypes rather than generic health checks.
• Netdata + MCP signal querying: Uses Netdata’s NATS collector contexts via MCP to pull the relevant metrics and rank anomalies for the incident window.
• Remediation verification loop: Re-runs the same MCP queries after applying remediation to confirm signals return to expected ranges, reducing false fixes.
• Use case: An on-call engineer is paged for a Netdata alert tied to a NATS instance and needs a repeatable workflow to identify root cause and next steps.

Quick Start

Use the skill when investigating NATS slowness or message loss by asking your agent to diagnose the incident using Netdata MCP NATS health signals for the affected node.