diff --git a/examples/services/echo-service.ts b/examples/services/echo-service.ts
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2023 The NATS Authors
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+import { cli, Command, Flags } from "https://deno.land/x/cobra@v0.0.9/mod.ts";
+import { connect, headers } from "../../src/mod.ts";
+
+const root = cli({
+  use: "echo-service [--server server:port]",
+  run: async (
+    _cmd: Command,
+    _args: string[],
+    flags: Flags,
+  ): Promise<number> => {
+    const servers = flags.values<string>("server");
+    const nc = await connect({ servers });
+    const srv = await nc.services.add({
+      name: "echo",
+      version: "0.0.1",
+      description: "echo service",
+      metadata: {
+        "entry": "sample echo service",
+      },
+    });
+
+    srv.addEndpoint("echo", (err, req) => {
+      if (err) {
+        console.log(err);
+        srv.stop(err);
+      } else {
+        console.log(`Handling request on subject ${req.subject}`);
+        const h = req.headers || headers();
+        h.set("ConnectedUrl", `nats://${nc.getServer()}`);
+        h.set("Timestamp", new Date().toUTCString());
+        if (nc.info?.cluster) {
+          h.set("ConnectedCluster", nc.info.cluster);
+        }
+        req.respond(req.data, { headers: h });
+      }
+    });
+
+    try {
+      console.log("waiting for requests");
+      await srv.stopped;
+      return 0;
+    } catch (err) {
+      console.error(err);
+      return 1;
+    }
+  },
+});
+
+root.addFlag({
+  name: "server",
+  short: "s",
+  type: "string",
+  usage: "NATS server host:port",
+  default: "demo.nats.io",
+  persistent: true,
+});
+
+Deno.exit(await root.execute(Deno.args));
diff --git a/examples/services/nats-service.ts b/examples/services/nats-service.ts
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2023 The NATS Authors
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+import { cli, Command, Flags } from "https://deno.land/x/cobra@v0.0.9/mod.ts";
+import { collect } from "../../nats-base-client/util.ts";
+import { millis } from "../../nats-base-client/jsutil.ts";
+import { NatsConnection } from "../../nats-base-client/types.ts";
+import { connect } from "../../src/connect.ts";
+import { QueuedIterator } from "../../nats-base-client/queued_iterator.ts";
+
+const root = cli({
+  use:
+    "nats-service [--server host:port] [ping|info|status] [--name n] [--id id])",
+});
+
+root.addFlag({
+  name: "server",
+  short: "s",
+  type: "string",
+  usage: "NATS server host:port",
+  default: "demo.nats.io",
+  persistent: true,
+});
+
+root.addFlag({
+  short: "n",
+  name: "name",
+  type: "string",
+  usage: "service name to filter on",
+  default: "",
+  persistent: true,
+});
+root.addFlag({
+  name: "id",
+  type: "string",
+  usage: "service id to filter on",
+  default: "",
+  persistent: true,
+});
+
+root.addCommand({
+  use: "ping [--name] [--id]",
+  short: "pings services",
+  run: async (
+    cmd: Command,
+    _args: string[],
+    flags: Flags,
+  ): Promise<number> => {
+    const nc = await createConnection(flags);
+    const opts = options(flags);
+    const mc = nc.services.client();
+    const infos = (await safeCollect(mc.ping(opts.name, opts.id))).sort(
+      (a, b) => {
+        const A = `${a.name} ${a.version}`;
+        const B = `${b.name} ${b.version}`;
+        return B.localeCompare(A);
+      },
+    );
+    if (infos.length) {
+      console.table(infos);
+    }
+    await nc.close();
+    return 0;
+  },
+});
+
+root.addCommand({
+  use: "stats [--name] [--id]",
+  short: "get service stats",
+  run: async (
+    cmd: Command,
+    _args: string[],
+    flags: Flags,
+  ): Promise<number> => {
+    const nc = await createConnection(flags);
+    const mc = nc.services.client();
+    const opts = options(flags);
+    // stats are grouped by endpoint, if this is a multi-endpoint map this so that each
+    // endpoint looks like a service
+    const stats: { num_requests: number }[] = [];
+    (await safeCollect(mc.stats(opts.name, opts.id))).forEach(
+      (s) => {
+        const { name, id, version } = s;
+        s.endpoints?.forEach((ne) => {
+          const line = Object.assign(ne, {
+            name,
+            endpoint: ne.name,
+            id,
+            version,
+          });
+          line.processing_time = millis(line.processing_time);
+          line.average_processing_time = millis(line.average_processing_time);
+          stats.push(line);
+        });
+      },
+    );
+
+    stats.sort((a, b) => {
+      return b.num_requests - a.num_requests;
+    });
+
+    if (stats.length) {
+      console.table(stats);
+    }
+
+    await nc.close();
+    return 0;
+  },
+});
+
+root.addCommand({
+  use: "info [--name] [--id]",
+  short: "get service info",
+  run: async (
+    cmd: Command,
+    _args: string[],
+    flags: Flags,
+  ): Promise<number> => {
+    const nc = await createConnection(flags);
+    const mc = nc.services.client();
+    const opts = options(flags);
+
+    const infos = (await safeCollect(mc.info(opts.name, opts.id))).sort(
+      (a, b) => {
+        const A = `${a.name} ${a.version}`;
+        const B = `${b.name} ${b.version}`;
+        return B.localeCompare(A);
+      },
+    );
+    if (infos.length) {
+      console.table(infos);
+    }
+    await nc.close();
+    return 0;
+  },
+});
+
+function createConnection(flags: Flags): Promise<NatsConnection> {
+  const servers = [flags.value<string>("server")];
+  return connect({ servers });
+}
+
+function options(
+  flags: Flags,
+): { name?: string; id?: string } {
+  let name: string | undefined = flags.value<string>("name");
+  if (name === "") {
+    name = undefined;
+  }
+  let id: string | undefined = flags.value<string>("id");
+  if (id === "") {
+    id = undefined;
+  }
+  return { name, id };
+}
+
+async function safeCollect<T>(iter: Promise<QueuedIterator<T>>): Promise<T[]> {
+  try {
+    return await collect(await iter);
+  } catch (err) {
+    if (err.code === "503") {
+      console.log("no services found");
+      return Promise.resolve([]);
+    } else {
+      throw err;
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+Deno.exit(await root.execute(Deno.args));