# Nats.io "official" support as a move towards a distributed system

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nats-io-official-support-as-a-move-towards-a-distributed-system/41727>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [February 14, 2016, 6:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nats-io-official-support-as-a-move-towards-a-distributed-system/41727 "2016-02-14T18:56:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![molsznski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@molsznski](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/molsznski)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 6:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nats-io-official-support-as-a-move-towards-a-distributed-system/41727/1 "2016-02-14T18:56:16Z")

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Howdy Logstash community!

I am curious.

Are there are any plans to make a nats.io-input-plugin an official plugin for Logstash?

**Why is this important ?**

I believe that kafka, rmq, 0mq and inputs like that are of great value for scaling.  
The workflow is simple and elegant.  
First, you configure a more-or-less stateless logstash instance connected to a message broker.  
Then scale that logstash instance up or down horizontally without any complex tooling/workflow.  
And [nats.io](http://nats.io) is an awesome and different in nature message queue that logstash doesn't yet officially support

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2016, 4:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nats-io-official-support-as-a-move-towards-a-distributed-system/41727/2 "2016-02-15T16:10:44Z")

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Please raise a request here for the plugin to be considered official - [https://github.com/elastic/logstash/issues](https://github.com/elastic/logstash/issues)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 5:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nats-io-official-support-as-a-move-towards-a-distributed-system/41727/3 "2017-07-06T05:11:25Z")

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