specification: API Commons Lifecycle
specificationVersion: '0.1'
provider: Cleanshelf
providerId: cleanshelf
generated: '2026-09-05'
method: searched
source: >-
  LeanIX acquisition press release (24 March 2021), the LeanIX blog post
  announcing the product transition, and live probes of cleanshelf.com.
description: >-
  Lifecycle record for the Cleanshelf product and its API. Cleanshelf is
  end-of-life: the company was acquired and the product was folded into the
  acquirer's platform. There is no versioning policy, deprecation header
  policy, SLA or status page to record, because there is no running Cleanshelf
  service.
status: retired
retired: true
retirement:
  event: acquisition
  acquirer: LeanIX
  announced: '2021-03-24'
  announcement_url: https://www.leanix.net/en/company/press/leanix-acquire-saas-management-provider-cleanshelf
  successor_product: LeanIX SaaS Intelligence
  successor_available_from: '2021-05-01'
  successor_note: >-
    SaaS discovery and cataloging was also made available as a component of the
    LeanIX Application Portfolio Management module in Q2 2021. LeanIX was later
    acquired by SAP; the LeanIX API surface is profiled separately under the
    leanix record.
  successor_record: https://apis.io/providers/leanix/
domain_disposition:
  domain: cleanshelf.com
  http_status: 301
  redirects_to: https://www.leanix.net/
  operator_evidence: >-
    TLS certificate subject O=SAP SE, CN=leanix.info; nameservers nsp1.sap.de,
    nsp3.sap.net, nsp4.sap.asia.
  subdomains_resolving: []
  subdomains_checked:
  - api.cleanshelf.com
  - app.cleanshelf.com
  - docs.cleanshelf.com
versioning:
  policy: null
  note: No Cleanshelf versioning policy is published; the product no longer exists.
deprecation:
  policy_published: false
  sunset_header: unknown
  deprecation_header: unknown
  note: >-
    The product itself is deprecated. The acquirer announced a named successor
    and a date, which is more migration guidance than most retired products
    publish, but no RFC 8594 Sunset/Deprecation header behavior can be observed
    because no Cleanshelf API host resolves.
sla: null
status_page: null
deprecated_operations: []
evidence:
- url: https://www.leanix.net/en/company/press/leanix-acquire-saas-management-provider-cleanshelf
  status: 200
- url: https://www.leanix.net/en/blog/saas-management-provider-cleanshelf-joins-leanix
  status: 200
- url: https://cleanshelf.com/
  status: 301
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com