# NATS JetStream Management API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/nats/nats-jetstream-management-api/  
**Provider:** NATS — https://apis.io/providers/nats/  
**Documentation:** https://docs.nats.io/reference/reference-protocols/nats_api_reference

NATS JetStream Management API is one of 13 APIs that [NATS](https://apis.io/providers/nats/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by an AsyncAPI event-driven specification. This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition. Tagged areas include JetStream, Management, and Streaming. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an API reference, an AsyncAPI specification, and 1 JSON Schema.

The JetStream wire API provides a protocol-level management interface for configuring and operating JetStream streams, consumers, key-value buckets, and object stores. Requests are made by publishing to well-known $JS.API.* subjects and responses are returned as typed JSON payloads. This API underlies all official NATS client SDKs and the nats CLI.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.nats.io/reference/reference-protocols/nats_api_reference
- **Reference** — https://docs.nats.io/nats-concepts/jetstream
- **AsyncAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nats/refs/heads/main/properties/nats-jetstream-api-asyncapi.yml
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nats/refs/heads/main/properties/nats-jetstream-config-json-schema.json

## Other NATS APIs (12)

- [NATS Messaging API](https://apis.io/apis/nats/nats-messaging-api/)
- [NATS Key-Value Store API](https://apis.io/apis/nats/nats-kv-api/)
- [NATS Object Store API](https://apis.io/apis/nats/nats-object-store-api/)
- [NATS Accounts API](https://apis.io/apis/nats/nats-accounts-api/)
- [NATS Connections API](https://apis.io/apis/nats/nats-connections-api/)
- [NATS Gateways API](https://apis.io/apis/nats/nats-gateways-api/)
- [NATS Health API](https://apis.io/apis/nats/nats-health-api/)
- [NATS JetStream API](https://apis.io/apis/nats/nats-jetstream-api/)
- [NATS Leaf Nodes API](https://apis.io/apis/nats/nats-leaf-nodes-api/)
- [NATS Routes API](https://apis.io/apis/nats/nats-routes-api/)
- [NATS Server API](https://apis.io/apis/nats/nats-server-api/)
- [NATS Subscriptions API](https://apis.io/apis/nats/nats-subscriptions-api/)

## Tags

JetStream, Management, Streaming

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