Please include NATS Tools in docker container

[ryn9]

It would be helpful to have the nats and nats-top commands available in the container.

That way, we could execute the following to interface with the running instance:
docker exec -it CONTAINER_NAME nats
docker exec -it CONTAINER_NAME nats-top

references:
https://docs.nats.io/using-nats/nats-tools/nats_cli
https://docs.nats.io/using-nats/nats-tools/nats_top

[jnehlmeier]

There is https://hub.docker.com/r/natsio/nats-box which contains the tools.

[ryn9]

hmm - didnt see that.
Maybe reference that in the readme of this effort?

[jnehlmeier]

Indeed it is a bit hard to discover. I stumbled upon it while reading https://docs.nats.io/running-a-nats-service/nats_docker#testing-the-clusters

I think there should be an additional docker section/page in https://docs.nats.io/using-nats/nats-tools to mention it.

[kostyaten]

This does not solve the problem when you need to check if the service is running. Or can you tell me how to check?
My example is docker-compose.yaml

    healthcheck:
      test: "how?????"
      interval: 10s
      timeout: 5s
      retries: 5

[jnehlmeier]

You can turn on monitoring (https://docs.nats.io/running-a-nats-service/configuration/monitoring) and then use curl to call the healthz endpoint.

All endpoints: https://docs.nats.io/running-a-nats-service/nats_admin/monitoring