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# Ably Documentation

> Ably is a realtime experience infrastructure platform that provides pub/sub messaging, chat, realtime data synchronization, and more.

- **Global Edge Network**: Ultra-low latency realtime messaging delivered through a globally distributed edge network
- **Enterprise Scale**: Built to handle millions of concurrent connections with guaranteed message delivery
- **Multiple Products**: Pub/Sub, Chat, LiveSync, LiveObjects and Spaces
- **Developer-Friendly SDKs**: SDKs available for JavaScript, Node.js, Java, Python, Go, Objective-C, Swift, Csharp, PHP, Flutter, Ruby, React, React Native, and Kotlin


## Platform

- [About Ably](https://ably.com/docs/platform.md): An introduction to Ably and its highly-available, scalable platform.
- [Guide: Export chat data to your own systems](https://ably.com/docs/guides/chat/export-chat.md): Learn how to export chat data from Ably Chat to your own systems.
- [Guide: Building livestream chat at scale with Ably](https://ably.com/docs/guides/chat/build-livestream.md): Architecting livestream chat with Ably: performance, reliability, and cost at scale. Key decisions, technical depth, and why Ably is the right choice.
- [llms.txt](https://ably.com/docs/platform/ai-llms/llms-txt.md): Discover all Ably documentation pages using llms.txt, a machine-readable index optimized for LLMs and AI assistants.
- [Building with LLMs](https://ably.com/docs/platform/ai-llms.md): Learn how to use LLMs to build with Ably documentation. Access markdown versions of docs and use our LLM-optimized resources.
- [Support tickets](https://ably.com/docs/platform/support.md): Learn more about Ably's AI Transport and the features that enable you to quickly build functionality into new and existing applications.
- [Ably CLI](https://ably.com/docs/platform/tools/cli.md): The Ably CLI is a command-line interface for managing Ably resources and interacting with Ably's products APIs directly from your terminal.

### Account Management

- [Two-factor authentication \(2FA\)](https://ably.com/docs/platform/account/2fa.md): Enable two-factor authentication for your Ably account.
- [Enterprise customization](https://ably.com/docs/platform/account/enterprise-customization.md): How Enterprise customers can create a custom endpoint and benefit from Active Traffic Management and other advanced Ably features.
- [Account overview](https://ably.com/docs/platform/account.md): Manage all aspects of your account, from 2FA and billing to user management and personal preferences. 
- [Organizations](https://ably.com/docs/platform/account/organizations.md): Manage Ably organizations, provision users, configure SSO with SCIM, and handle account roles.
- [Programmatic management with Control API](https://ably.com/docs/platform/account/control-api.md): The Control API is a REST API that enables you to manage your Ably account programmatically. This is the Control API user guide.
- [Single sign-on \(SSO\)](https://ably.com/docs/platform/account/sso.md): Single sign-on enables users to authenticate with Ably using your own identity provider.
- [User management](https://ably.com/docs/platform/account/users.md): Learn how to manage users, user roles, and the permissions associated with each role.
- [API keys](https://ably.com/docs/platform/account/app/api.md): “Manage Ably API keys by creating, updating, setting restrictions, and exploring integration options.”
- [Dev console](https://ably.com/docs/platform/account/app/console.md): Gain realtime insights into application-wide events, such as connection status changes, channel activity, and event logs.” meta_keywords: “Ably dev console, realtime monitoring, connection status changes, channel activity, event logs
- [Queues](https://ably.com/docs/platform/account/app/queues.md): Manage and configure Ably queues, monitor realtime data, and optimize performance.”
- [App management overview](https://ably.com/docs/platform/account/app.md):  Manage and monitor your applications on the Ably platform using the Ably dashboard. Create new apps, view existing ones, and configure settings from your browser.
- [Notifications](https://ably.com/docs/platform/account/app/notifications.md): Configure credentials for integrating Ably's push notification services with third-party services, send push notifications from the Ably dashboard, and inspect push notifications .”
- [Settings](https://ably.com/docs/platform/account/app/settings.md): Manage your Ably application settings including security, billing, authentication, and protocol support to optimize performance and enhance security.
- [Stats](https://ably.com/docs/platform/account/app/stats.md): “Monitor and analyze your app's performance with Ably's dashboard. Access realtime stats and trends for optimized management."

### Architecture

- [Connection recovery](https://ably.com/docs/platform/architecture/connection-recovery.md): Understand how Ably's platform ensures reliable connection recovery when clients experience network disruption.
- [Fault tolerance](https://ably.com/docs/platform/architecture/fault-tolerance.md): Understand how Ably's platform is built to be fault tolerant to ensure high availability and reliability to clients.
- [Edge network](https://ably.com/docs/platform/architecture/edge-network.md): Understand how Ably's edge network provides reliable, low-latency connectivity to its platform from anywhere in the world.
- [Architecture overview](https://ably.com/docs/platform/architecture.md): Learn more about Ably's platform architecture.
- [Latency](https://ably.com/docs/platform/architecture/latency.md): Understand Ably's latency performance metrics and how they ensure consistent, low-latency message delivery across the global platform.
- [Idempotency](https://ably.com/docs/platform/architecture/idempotency.md): Understand how Ably provides exactly-once message delivery through idempotent publishing.
- [Message ordering](https://ably.com/docs/platform/architecture/message-ordering.md): Understand how Ably achieves reliable message ordering across its platform.
- [Infrastructure operations](https://ably.com/docs/platform/architecture/infrastructure-operations.md): Understand how Ably manages its infrastructure operations to ensure continued reliability and availability of its platform.
- [Performance](https://ably.com/docs/platform/architecture/performance.md): Understand how Ably delivers messages quickly and efficiently, even at high volumes.
- [Scalability of the Ably platform](https://ably.com/docs/platform/architecture/platform-scalability.md): Understand how Ably's platform achieves horizontal scalability to handle large-scale realtime messaging.

### Authentication

- [Basic auth](https://ably.com/docs/auth/basic.md): Basic authentication allows you to authenticate a secure server using an Ably API key and secret.
- [Identified clients](https://ably.com/docs/auth/identified-clients.md): Clients can be allocated a client ID to help control their operations and interactions with Ably channels.
- [Capabilities](https://ably.com/docs/auth/capabilities.md): Capabilities define which operations can be carried out on which channels by a client.
- [Authentication overview](https://ably.com/docs/auth.md): Ably supports two main authentication schemes: basic authentication and token authentication. Token authentication can be implemented using JWTs, Ably tokens, and Ably token requests.
- [Token revocation](https://ably.com/docs/auth/revocation.md): Token revocation is a mechanism that enables an app to invalidate authentication tokens.
- [Token auth](https://ably.com/docs/auth/token.md): Token authentication allows clients to authenticate with Ably, without exposing the Ably API key and secret.

### Deprecations

- [Deprecation policy](https://ably.com/docs/platform/deprecate.md): A policy detailing how Ably deprecates SDKs and APIs.
- [Deprecation of protocol version 1 - November 2025](https://ably.com/docs/platform/deprecate/protocol-v1.md): A policy detailing how Ably deprecates SDKs and APIs.
- [Deprecation of TLS 1.0 and 1.1 - June 2025](https://ably.com/docs/platform/deprecate/tls-v1-1.md): A policy detailing how Ably is deprecating support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1.

### Errors

- [Debugging](https://ably.com/docs/platform/errors.md): Debugging in Ably supported apps, including troubleshooting techniques, logging options, and tools for error analysis.
- [Error codes](https://ably.com/docs/platform/errors/codes.md): Understand Ably error codes and their causes, to resolve them efficiently.

### Integrations

- [Integrations overview](https://ably.com/docs/platform/integrations.md): Integrations enable external services to send data to Ably channels, and for Ably events to send their data to external services.
- [Skip integrations](https://ably.com/docs/platform/integrations/skip-integrations.md): Learn how to skip integrations on a per-message basis, including examples for skipping all or specific integration rules.
- [Ably Queues](https://ably.com/docs/platform/integrations/queues.md): Ably queues provide a queueing mechanism to integrate Ably with your external service.
- [Ably Kafka Connector](https://ably.com/docs/platform/integrations/inbound/kafka-connector.md): The Ably Kafka Connector sends data from Kafka to an Ably channel in realtime.
- [Inbound webhooks](https://ably.com/docs/platform/integrations/inbound/webhooks.md): Incoming webhooks let you integrate external web services with Ably.
- [Outbound streaming overview](https://ably.com/docs/platform/integrations/streaming.md): Outbound streaming integrations enable you to stream data from Ably to an external service for realtime processing.
- [Datadog integration](https://ably.com/docs/platform/integrations/streaming/datadog.md): Connect Ably and Datadog to monitor messages, channels, and connections in realtime, integrating your Ably statistics with your existing Datadog setup.
- [Apache Kafka integration](https://ably.com/docs/platform/integrations/streaming/kafka.md): Send data to Kafka based on message, channel lifecycle, channel occupancy, and presence events.
- [AWS Kinesis integration](https://ably.com/docs/platform/integrations/streaming/kinesis.md): Send data to Kinesis based on message, channel lifecycle, channel occupancy, and presence events.
- [AMQP integration](https://ably.com/docs/platform/integrations/streaming/amqp.md): Send data to AMQP based on message, channel lifecycle, channel occupancy, and presence events.
- [Apache Pulsar integration](https://ably.com/docs/platform/integrations/streaming/pulsar.md): Send data to Pulsar based on message, channel lifecycle, channel occupancy, and presence events.
- [AWS SQS integration](https://ably.com/docs/platform/integrations/streaming/sqs.md): Send data to SQS based on message, channel lifecycle, channel occupancy, and presence events.
- [Google Function integration](https://ably.com/docs/platform/integrations/webhooks/gcp-function.md): Trigger Google Functions based on message, channel lifecycle, channel occupancy, and presence events.
- [Azure Functions integration](https://ably.com/docs/platform/integrations/webhooks/azure.md): Trigger Microsoft Azure functions based on message, channel lifecycle, channel occupancy, and presence events.
- [Cloudflare Worker integration](https://ably.com/docs/platform/integrations/webhooks/cloudflare.md): Trigger Cloudflare Workers based on message, channel lifecycle, channel occupancy, and presence events.
- [Generic HTTP webhooks](https://ably.com/docs/platform/integrations/webhooks/generic.md): Configure generic HTTP webhooks to trigger HTTP endpoints and notify external services when events occur in Ably.
- [IFTTT integration](https://ably.com/docs/platform/integrations/webhooks/ifttt.md): Trigger IFTTT based on message, channel lifecycle, channel occupancy, and presence events.
- [Outbound webhooks overview](https://ably.com/docs/platform/integrations/webhooks.md): A guide on webhook payloads, including batched, enveloped, and non-enveloped event payloads, with decoding examples and sources.
- [AWS Lambda integration](https://ably.com/docs/platform/integrations/webhooks/lambda.md): Trigger AWS Lambda functions based on message, channel lifecycle, channel occupancy, and presence events.
- [Zapier integration](https://ably.com/docs/platform/integrations/webhooks/zapier.md): Trigger Zapier based on message, channel lifecycle, channel occupancy, and presence events.

### Pricing

- [Billing](https://ably.com/docs/platform/pricing/billing.md): Understand how invoicing and billing works for Ably packages.
- [Free package](https://ably.com/docs/platform/pricing/free.md): Explore the features of Ably's Free package.
- [Enterprise package](https://ably.com/docs/platform/pricing/enterprise.md): Explore the features of Ably's Enterprise package.
- [Pricing overview](https://ably.com/docs/platform/pricing.md): Understand the pricing models available to you, and understand the benefits of each package type.
- [Pricing FAQs](https://ably.com/docs/platform/pricing/faqs.md): A list of the most commonly asked questions related to Ably pricing.