The feature of message activity in Slack allows those with appropriate permissions, including owners, admins, and members, to ascertain the number of individuals who have engaged with a certain message. The utilization of message activity may be employed as a means to assess the influence of announcements and internal communications initiatives inside an organization.

Anticipated outcomes

• Users have the ability to access message activity pertaining to messages that have been transmitted throughout the preceding 12-month period, specifically inside public channels that consist of a minimum of 50 users.
• By default, those who possess ownership or administrative privileges have the ability to access and monitor message activity inside their own workspace or Enterprise Grid organization. If desired, individuals have the option to deactivate messaging activity for their organization or provide certain members the authority to utilize this functionality.
• Owners and administrators of organizations subscribed to the Enterprise Grid plan have the ability to activate message activity within Slack Connect channels.

View message activity

Message data from the channel where the message was posted can be accessed.

• To access more options for a message, position the cursor over the message and choose the icon consisting of three dots.
  Please choose the option “View message activity.”
• If desired, users may select the date ranges displayed under the “Activity over time” section in order to modify the graph accordingly.

Available message activity data