Real-Time Communication Fabric for Distributed Agents and Applications. NATS unifies messaging, streaming, and state into one real-time system — connecting services, devices, and AI agents from cloud to edge.
NATS was accepted to CNCF on March 15, 2018 at the Incubating maturity level and then moved to the Graduated maturity level on November 2, 2026.Project Insights
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Health Score
Healthy (72)
Health Score measures a project’s overall trustworthiness across four key areas: contributors, development, popularity, and security.
Total contributors
6,198
+2% vs. previous year
Total contributing organizations
1,625
-4% vs. previous year
GitHub Stars
5,129
-14% vs. previous year
GitHub Forks
1,064
+4% vs. previous year
Software Value
$90.4M
First commit
October 30, 2010
NATS case studies
DeFacto
27.5 Million Events published per 100 hours
How DeFacto migrated to an event-driven architecture
Read Case Study
Finleap Connect
5 Months Implemented mTLS across all services in clusters for code to comply with European PSD2
Operating multiple high-density bare-metal clusters in a highly regulated industry
Read Case StudyRecorded NATS programs
Cloud Native Live: Advanced NATS – Building a Wasm native reconciliation loop
Presented by: Synadia
