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Slack RTM API

Developer Tools — Slack's Real Time Messaging API [Web App, Messaging, Tech]
Developer Toolssaasest. 2015
→ Redirected
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 28, 2026
Pulse 16.0 · 1/4
16.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
17
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
9
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. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
17 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 28, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 17 probesavg response 2776 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
docs.slack.dev
edge
direct origin
server
Heroku
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Slack RTM API's listed URL redirected off its original domain (to https://docs.slack.dev/) when we last probed it on Aug 28, 2026 — we mark it redirected, not dead. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 9 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Pipe.Slackdev-toolssimilar89%40.00.0● live
Wikisyncdev-toolssimilar89%0.00.0■ inactive
Batch Insights APIdev-toolssimilar89%49.40.0● live
Realpubdev-toolssimilar89%8.00.0— unverified
FeatureTrackerdev-toolssimilar89%8.00.0— unverified
EVRYTHNGdev-toolssimilar80%47.9+9.6● live
Pusherdev-toolssimilar80%49.80.0● live
Crash Catchdev-toolssimilar80%8.00.0— unverified

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 modelsaas
Liveness tierunknown
Competitive alternativesnone linked
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
2026-08-28 00:31Z200api.slack.com → docs.slack.devHeroku1591redirected_offsite
2026-08-19 14:26Z200api.slack.com → docs.slack.devHeroku2520redirected_offsite
2026-08-11 01:00Z200api.slack.com → docs.slack.devHeroku1832redirected_offsite
2026-08-08 06:56Z200api.slack.com → docs.slack.devHeroku3556redirected_offsite
2026-08-05 19:13Z200api.slack.com → docs.slack.devHeroku4810redirected_offsite
2026-07-30 18:28Z200api.slack.com → docs.slack.devHeroku1831redirected_offsite
2026-07-23 09:54Z200api.slack.com → docs.slack.devHeroku3811redirected_offsite
2026-07-18 09:03Z200api.slack.com → docs.slack.devHeroku2041redirected_offsite
2026-07-11 09:17Z10003timeout
2026-07-04 13:12Z200api.slack.com → docs.slack.devHeroku1399redirected_offsite
2026-06-23 14:21Z200api.slack.com → docs.slack.devHeroku1289redirected_offsite
2026-06-21 17:26Z200api.slack.com → docs.slack.devHeroku1094redirected_offsite
2026-06-21 17:26Z200api.slack.com → docs.slack.devHeroku1404redirected_offsite
2026-06-20 05:15Z200api.slack.com → docs.slack.devHeroku1689redirected_offsite
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Slack RTM API · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/slack-rtm-api · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.