LaunchDarkly
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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
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.
Effortless Feature Management with Powerful Targeting
What do you like best about the product?
I find LaunchDarkly extremely beneficial for our feature flagging needs, as it provides robust feature control and simplifies configurations. I love how easy it is to configure and use, making it straightforward for my team to implement any changes swiftly without much complexity. I particularly appreciate the ability to conduct gradual rollouts, which allows us to manage feature releases efficiently and minimize risk. This capability, paired with the power to gate releases and create targeted configurations, helps us isolate features to specific geographies or user segments, which is crucial for compliance and targeted user experiences. The functionality to create custom segments and tailor targeting rules empowers us to manage our user base with high precision. Additionally, our use of both client and server SDKs with LaunchDarkly enhances our flexibility in deployment across different environments. The initial setup also presented no hurdles for us, as it was pretty simple to understand, reinforcing the platform's user-friendly nature.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike the 10,000 user limit on Segments. Even though there is a feature for Big Segments, the migration and usage from standard Segments to Big Segments is not straightforward. Additionally, creating a persistent store in our infrastructure to support Big Segments is an overhead that I find burdensome. This additional requirement is something we just don't want to undertake.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use LaunchDarkly for feature flagging and as a configuration store, enabling controlled feature gating and gradual rollouts to specific regions or user groups. It simplifies complex targeting rules, facilitating compliance with geographical restrictions.
Intuitive and Efficient with Handy Shortcuts
What do you like best about the product?
I love the short cuts to copy keys and the ability to cross check which users and orgs we have on each feature. The product is very intuitive to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing I can think of! This product is very intuitive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
LaunchDarkly organizes of feature distribution system, it's seamless adding relevant users to different flags and segments. Easy to learn, never even had to utilize support.
Facilitate Quick Tests with Flexible Control
What do you like best about the product?
I love the ease of use of LaunchDarkly, as it allows me to change things efficiently and apply various different rules, using user emails, organizations, and algorithms. This flexibility makes it easier to conduct faster tests and allows releasing features to specific users, which is extremely useful for testing elements before a general launch. The ability to have detailed control over different environments and types of users greatly helps in configuring systems only for the right people within the company.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only thing I can think of is that there was one situation this year where the server went down and we were without it for about half a day, which caused some problems in our system.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use LaunchDarkly to easily control different types of users and organizations. It speeds up technical testing, allowing quick releases for specific users, and helps test features before the general launch.
Effortless Feature Management with LaunchDarkly
What do you like best about the product?
I greatly appreciate LaunchDarkly for its ability to efficiently manage feature flags for customer instances. It provides a quick and seamless way to enable or disable application functions, which is incredibly valuable for managing dynamic customer requests, such as enabling AI services. The feature history tracking is another fantastic aspect, allowing me to see past changes made to each feature flag, contributing to better management and oversight. Additionally, the initial setup was remarkably straightforward, thanks in part to the support provided by the LaunchDarkly team. Their guidance made the process smooth and hassle-free.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing that I dislike about LaunchDarkly
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use LaunchDarkly to quickly enable and disable application functions and manage Feature Flags, streamlining the process for customer requests and tracking feature flag changes.
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.
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