LaunchDarkly
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Effortless Flag Management and Intuitive Editing
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of searching through the flags, then the intuitiveness of editing the flags was very surprising.
What do you dislike about the product?
Any of the issues we've run into have been more around how we set up the flag and less about how LaunchDarkly works. Overall, there isn't anything I disklike.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it to control access to new features as we continue to work through development. It is also used to limit access based on licensing agreements
Our go-to tool for flexible and safer release management!
What do you like best about the product?
One of the standout features is how flexibly and simplicity it lets teams manage releases, whether that's by targeting specific users or gradually rolling out changes to a set percentage of users. This level of control is a significant advantage. I also appreciate being able to add tags to feature flags, which makes it much easier to monitor how many feature flags each team is using.
Another highly valuable capability is tracking the evolution of feature flags evaluations over time. Additionally, having tags that indicate when a flag is ready to be removed or archived is extremely helpful for keeping things organized and tidy.
Another highly valuable capability is tracking the evolution of feature flags evaluations over time. Additionally, having tags that indicate when a flag is ready to be removed or archived is extremely helpful for keeping things organized and tidy.
What do you dislike about the product?
There have been some recent changes to the UI related to the FF archiving process, which have introduced a bit of additional confusion. Other than that, I don't have many issues to report.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Launch Darkly to perform continuous releases, keeping everything behind a feature flag, which helps accelerate our development process. Additionally, we rely on it for progressive rollouts, both when introducing new features and when deploying bug fixes. By gradually releasing changes to batches of customers before enabling them for everyone, we ensure a safer and more controlled deployment process overall.
Effortless Feature Management with Intuitive Interface
What do you like best about the product?
I like LaunchDarkly's straightforward and easy-to-use interface and targeting. I enjoy the change history and monitoring capabilities, which work well for our needs. The initial setup was relatively straightforward.
What do you dislike about the product?
No major complaints at this time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use LaunchDarkly for release and launch management, controlling exposure of new code to end-users, and managing rollouts to complex segments and cohorts.
Effortless for Engineering Teams, Clean and Simple Interface
What do you like best about the product?
Super easy to use for my engineering teams. Clean and simple user face
What do you dislike about the product?
sometimes i think it could be organized better. We have so many different segments its hard to find without saving the specific link. Could be just an us problem though.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it largely to grant clients access to certain features or segments and its clean and simple to use
Lightning-Fast Updates and Effortless Custom Logic
What do you like best about the product?
How quick new value updates flow to the user, and how easy it is to add custom logic based on versioning
What do you dislike about the product?
There's no ability to add a static flag, aka it doesn't refresh until app launch. Useful for things such as app theme which you don't want to be truly dynamic.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Quick updates of feature flags, if there's a bug in production we can roll banners out immediately to alert users we are rectifying it
Effortless Feature Management for Nontechnical Users
What do you like best about the product?
I like that LaunchDarkly is really simple to utilize when it comes to adding or removing users from pilot groups. It makes segmenting users easy and scheduling releases is straightforward as well. I appreciate the quick updates that instantly take effect in our code. For someone like me who is not technically inclined, it's been really simple to use and understand. Additionally, my initial setup when I joined the user base was very simple, and I was able to grasp how it works easily. The layout seems simple too, which I find helpful.
What do you dislike about the product?
I find that there's a lot of extra typing needed when you have to retype the segment name to make something work. It feels like unnecessary copying and pasting when adding or removing users. It would also be nice if I could take our database and, instead of copying over a user number, associate it with an email ID. I'm not sure if that's a limitation of LaunchDarkly or how we set it up.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use LaunchDarkly to manage feature launches and user lists efficiently. It simplifies adding users to pilots and scheduling releases, enabling quick updates in our code. It's user-friendly, even for non-technical people, making it easier to manage segments and ensure targeted feature distribution.
Empowers Feature Management, Needs Better User Tracking
What do you like best about the product?
I appreciate LaunchDarkly's ability to effectively release features under a feature flag, which allows me to monitor and manage how these changes affect user experience through tracking event frequency. I find it easy to monitor and manage experiments, providing a versatile tool for conducting feature tests and gaining valuable insights. The statistical analysis capabilities are an added benefit, giving me a robust overview of feature impacts and experiment results. These features make LaunchDarkly a highly valuable tool for my team's needs, enhancing our approach to feature management and user experience optimization.
What do you dislike about the product?
I find it hard to identify if a user is in a particular LaunchDarkly segment within our application. This difficulty makes it very hard to perform analysis beyond event frequency.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use LaunchDarkly to release features under a flag, monitor the impact on user experience, and manage experiments easily.
LaunchDarkly: Review of Feature Flag Management and Governance
What do you like best about the product?
This is the most critical feature for preventing "flag debt." LaunchDarkly's Flag Health dashboard and code reference detection (via integrations like GitHub) provide confidence when deleting flags.
Strong Audit Logging ensures accountability and compliance, showing flag creation, modification, and environment changes.
The ability to Archive and Restore flags is excellent for managing cleanup while retaining a safety net.
The intuitive Rules Engine allows complex, multi-variate targeting using visual blocks (the "if and elses").
LaunchDarkly uses a decentralized, CDN-based architecture to ensure low-latency flag delivery and high uptime, meaning flag checks don't slow down your application.
The platform integrates flag delivery with statistical analysis, making it easy to turn a feature rollout into a measurable experiment.
Strong Audit Logging ensures accountability and compliance, showing flag creation, modification, and environment changes.
The ability to Archive and Restore flags is excellent for managing cleanup while retaining a safety net.
The intuitive Rules Engine allows complex, multi-variate targeting using visual blocks (the "if and elses").
LaunchDarkly uses a decentralized, CDN-based architecture to ensure low-latency flag delivery and high uptime, meaning flag checks don't slow down your application.
The platform integrates flag delivery with statistical analysis, making it easy to turn a feature rollout into a measurable experiment.
What do you dislike about the product?
While the flag configuration is easy, integrating the SDK across multiple programming languages and environments can still take time and careful planning.
This is a very common piece of feedback. While you get the final flag value, drilling down into why a specific user got that value requires digging or the information is not present/visible
This is a very common piece of feedback. While you get the final flag value, drilling down into why a specific user got that value requires digging or the information is not present/visible
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
You can instantly turn off a buggy feature in production without rolling back code. This drastically reduces your Mean Time to Restore (MTTR) and prevents customer-facing outages, saving reputation and engineering time (especially at 2 a.m.).
Developers can merge and deploy code continuously (multiple times a day) into the main branch, keeping the feature hidden behind a flag. This reduces merge conflicts and allows Product/Marketing teams to choose the perfect business moment for the feature release, independent of engineering cycles.
You can safely test new code in production with a small, internal group (Canary Release) or a specific user segment. This reduces the "blast radius" of any bug and allows you to catch performance issues before they affect the general user base.
You can tailor the user experience by enabling features only for specific customer tiers, geographies, or subscription types. This allows for personalized product experiences and monetization (selling access to Premium/Beta features) directly from the platform.
Developers can merge and deploy code continuously (multiple times a day) into the main branch, keeping the feature hidden behind a flag. This reduces merge conflicts and allows Product/Marketing teams to choose the perfect business moment for the feature release, independent of engineering cycles.
You can safely test new code in production with a small, internal group (Canary Release) or a specific user segment. This reduces the "blast radius" of any bug and allows you to catch performance issues before they affect the general user base.
You can tailor the user experience by enabling features only for specific customer tiers, geographies, or subscription types. This allows for personalized product experiences and monetization (selling access to Premium/Beta features) directly from the platform.
Clear and Intuitive User Interface
What do you like best about the product?
The user interface is clear, making it easy to navigate, and the roll-out features are particularly convenient and useful. It's also very user-friendly to implement a feature flag.
What do you dislike about the product?
For operations not covered by the SDK (Java), the API SLOs aren't trustable.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using progressive roll-out feature and feature flag to protect our features launches.
Easily Manage Feature Flags, Needs Bulk Rule Import
What do you like best about the product?
I really enjoy using LaunchDarkly for its feature flags, which make it incredibly easy and user-friendly to enable or restrict access to features for specific clients or user groups. As a product manager, the user interface is intuitive, which significantly simplifies my workflow. I'm especially fond of the custom segment role capability that LaunchDarkly offers, allowing us to apply very specific, bespoke client setups and manage rules at a granular level. This feature is particularly beneficial for our needs as we often require detailed configurations, and it helps our teams target people, user groups, or roles with minimal hassle. Overall, the customization options within LaunchDarkly empower us to meet our unique workflow requirements and deliver tailored services to our clients.
What do you dislike about the product?
While LaunchDarkly's capability to create highly specific rules is invaluable and meets many core needs, scaling this process is quite cumbersome. Setting up these custom rules is currently a manual process, which is time-consuming when done at scale. Implementing a feature to import bulk files of these rules would be highly beneficial and time-saving. Additionally, there seems to have been an issue with the initial setup, potentially due to setting up two separate projects for the product, which might not have been the optimal choice.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use LaunchDarkly to apply feature flags for new features, enabling or restricting access at a granular level, which simplifies client management and is user-friendly. However, scaling the process is tedious without bulk import capabilities.
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