Ably Integration
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About the Ably integration
Pub/sub messaging platform With Arahi AI, you can connect Ably to Algolia, Assembla, Auth0 (Management API) and 1,500+ other apps using AI-powered workflows. No coding required — set up triggers, actions, and intelligent automation in minutes.
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- Developer Tools
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Ably automation use cases
- CI failure → on-call page
- Page the on-call engineer when a Ably pipeline fails on main — no manual triage.
- PR ready-for-review broadcast
- Ping the right reviewer in Slack when a Ably PR is ready, based on code-owners or labels.
- Release notes generation
- Generate release notes from merged Ably PRs with Conventional Commits parsing.
- Issue sync across trackers
- Mirror Ably issues to Linear, Jira, or Asana with bidirectional status sync.
Ably workflow examples
- Create Ably channel when Shopify order ships
A Shopify fulfillment event calls Create Ably Channel to broadcast live tracking updates to the customer's order page in the storefront app.
Shopify fulfillment creates Ably channel for tracking page.
- Report channel presence stats to Datadog
Every five minutes Query Batch Presence runs against active Ably channels and the concurrent user counts are pushed as metrics into Datadog.
Batch Presence query reports concurrent users to Datadog metrics.
- Archive Ably channel history into BigQuery
A scheduled Get Channel History job exports the prior day's messages from Ably and loads them into a BigQuery table for analytics teams.
Get Channel History pushes yesterday's messages to BigQuery.
Ably actions
- Query Batch Presence
- This tool enables querying the presence states of multiple channels in a single api request. the api retrieves the member presence details of the specified channels in parallel.
- Query Batch Presence History
- This tool enables querying presence history for multiple channels in a single api request. it uses the get endpoint at https://rest.ably.io/presence to retrieve the member presence history details of the specified channels in parallel.
- Create Ably Channel
- Creates a new channel or retrieves an existing channel in ably. this tool allows you to programmatically create and initialize channels for real-time messaging. since ably creates channels implicitly when first used, this action publishes an empty initialization message to create/activate the channel.
- Delete Channel Subscription
- This tool allows you to unsubscribe devices or clients from push notifications for specific channels. the operation is asynchronous, so immediate requests after deletion may briefly still return the subscription.
- Get Channel Details
- This tool retrieves metadata and details for a specific channel in ably. it returns a channeldetails object containing information about the channel's status, occupancy, and other metadata. the endpoint provides visibility into channel activity, including metrics such as connections, presence, publishers, and subscribers, and requires appropriate permissions.
- Get Channel History
- This tool retrieves the message history for a specified ably channel. it uses the get /channels/{channelid}/messages endpoint to return a paginated list of messages in chronological order, subject to parameters such as 'channelid', 'limit', 'direction', 'start', and 'end'. the tool is useful for auditing, recovering missed messages, analyzing channel activity, and debugging message flows. authentication is required via basic or token authentication.
- Get Channel Presence History
- This tool retrieves the history of presence messages for a specified channel in ably. it allows you to query presence events on a channel within a given time period.
- Get Ably Service Time
- This tool retrieves the current server time from ably's service in milliseconds since the epoch. it is particularly useful for time synchronization and generating valid tokenrequest timestamps to prevent replay attacks. the endpoint supports multiple content types, handles http errors, network issues, and is a fundamental tool for ensuring accurate timing in ably applications.
- Get Application Stats
- This tool retrieves your application's usage statistics from ably. the stats endpoint returns a paginated list of your application's usage statistics by minute, hour, day, or month. it supports optional parameters such as start, end, direction, limit, and unit to filter and format the returned data. the stats include metrics for: - message counts and data transferred - connection counts - channel usage - api request counts - push notification metrics - token request counts
- List Push Channel Subscriptions
- This tool retrieves a list of all push notification channel subscriptions. it allows you to view all active push notification subscriptions for channels in your ably application. allows filtering by channel, deviceid, and clientid, supports pagination with limit parameter, and returns detailed push notification subscription information including channel, deviceid, and clientid.
- Publish Message to Channel
- This tool will allow users to publish a message to a specified ably channel using a post request. it covers the essentials like channel name, message data, optional event name/type, and additional metadata for push notifications. it is an independent and fundamental operation within ably's real-time messaging platform.