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Dependabot

Developer Tools — Automated dependency updates for Ruby and JavaScript — Dependabot makes keeping your Ruby, Pytho…
Developer ToolsAnyone can copy thisest. 2017
→ Redirected
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 27, 2026
Pulse 21.5 · 2/4
21.5
Pulse Index
2/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
36
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
10
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

The recorded URL now redirects offsite — often an acquisition, rebrand, or wind-down; the destination is recorded in the telemetry below. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days.

HTTP liveness

real
36 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 27, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 36 probesavg response 1863 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
github.com
edge
direct origin
server
github.com
Tranco rank
#314,982
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Dependabot's listed URL redirected off its original domain (to https://github.com/security/advanced-security) when we last probed it on Aug 27, 2026 — we mark it redirected, not dead. Its Pulse Index is 21.5 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. Observed footprint: 10 functional tags. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 2 linked rivals, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Netlifydev-toolssimilar80%40.00.0● live
Heroku CIdev-toolssimilar73%40.00.0● live
StyleCIdev-toolssimilar70%42.40.0● live
Code Climatedev-toolssimilar70%46.70.0● live
Pull Dogdev-toolssimilar70%8.00.0— unverified
Kernldev-toolssimilar70%46.10.0● live
Depfudev-toolssimilar70%40.00.0● live
Bitbucket Pipelinesdev-toolssimilar67%40.00.0● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelunknown
Liveness tierunknown
Competitive alternatives2
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-27 18:13Z200dependabot.com → github.comgithub.com2552redirected_offsite
2026-08-26 09:43Z200dependabot.com → github.comgithub.com2493redirected_offsite
2026-08-19 14:04Z200dependabot.com → github.comgithub.com1762redirected_offsite
2026-08-11 00:39Z200dependabot.com → github.comgithub.com1607redirected_offsite
2026-08-08 06:33Z200dependabot.com → github.comgithub.com2110redirected_offsite
2026-08-05 18:52Z200dependabot.com → github.comgithub.com2231redirected_offsite
2026-07-30 18:06Z200dependabot.com → github.comgithub.com1611redirected_offsite
2026-07-23 09:28Z200dependabot.com → github.comgithub.com1752redirected_offsite
2026-07-22 09:31Z200dependabot.com → github.comgithub.com1511redirected_offsite
2026-07-21 09:32Z200dependabot.com → github.comgithub.com1283redirected_offsite
2026-07-20 10:00Z200dependabot.com → github.comgithub.com1968redirected_offsite
2026-07-19 09:11Z200dependabot.com → github.comgithub.com1567redirected_offsite
2026-07-18 08:52Z200dependabot.com → github.comgithub.com890redirected_offsite
2026-07-17 09:14Z200dependabot.com → github.comgithub.com2739redirected_offsite
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Dependabot · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/dependabot · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.