LaunchDarkly
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Excellent change management software
What do you like best about the product?
The UI is very sleek and overall quite intuitive - I don't need to think too much about where to find or access a feature, it just is where I expect it to be.
It's also easy to read at a glance - even from the list view page, I can see what state my flags are in for each environment.
It's also easy to read at a glance - even from the list view page, I can see what state my flags are in for each environment.
What do you dislike about the product?
A minor nitpick, but sometimes the site doesn't remember the environments that I want to see for a particular flag, and I'm forced to re-open each individual environment again to be able to switch between them. It's not a big deal, but it does slow me down occasionally when it does happen.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
LaunchDarkly is helping us a lot with our beta rollout. We have a set of feature which need to be encapsulated under one general cohort - LaunchDarkly allows us to provide fine-grained control to each individual feature under the umbrella via the use of prerequisite flags, ensuring that each user only has access to the correct/production-ready features as required.
Intuitive UI with Reliable Feature Flagging
What do you like best about the product?
I appreciate LaunchDarkly's intuitive and clean user interface, which simplifies our workflow. The documentation is good, ensuring an easy setup process. I value the ability to use feature flagging to release changes safely and confidently. Its integration with C# and JavaScript is seamless, aiding in smooth application development.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike how group variants are allocated during percentage rollouts. When assigning percentages to different variants, the groups may change based on the percentage calculation, leading to inconsistency. For instance, if I have a distribution of 10% for variant one, 10% for variant two, and 80% for variant three, and I later adjust these percentages, the users initially allocated to one variant might end up switching to another. This crossover can cause confusion. It would be beneficial if users originally allocated in the initial groupings stayed consistent, even as the percentage allocations change.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use LaunchDarkly to safely release our software changes with feature flags, ensuring they work correctly before customer rollout, thus enhancing our team's confidence and productivity.
Easy Setup, Intuitive UX, and Powerful Features
What do you like best about the product?
I love how easy LaunchDarkly is to set up and manage. Its intuitive UX/UI makes it simple to use, and the powerful features give us great flexibility with feature flags. The ability to conduct A/B testing, individual targeting, and progressive rollouts greatly enhances our testing processes. The Slack integration is invaluable for real-time updates on feature flags changes.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike having to enable environment variables one by one. I wish all environment variables for different environments like dev, stage, and prod were enabled by default. From what I remember previously, all were shown by default, and a change was made that now requires me to enable or disable them individually. This change makes it cumbersome to know which flags are active, requiring more clicks and making the workflow less efficient compared to having a default overview of them all.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use LaunchDarkly for feature flag management, enabling quick feature rollouts and testing while ensuring code quality through individual targeting and segments, simplifying the release process.
Helpful for Feature Management Despite Initial Setup Hurdles
What do you like best about the product?
I find the ability to enable or disable features on different environments very helpful, particularly for testing before production. This functionality is crucial for my workflow. Additionally, I appreciate the consistent improvements LaunchDarkly makes, which enhances its value. The integration with both backend and frontend systems also works well for us.
What do you dislike about the product?
At the beginning, it was difficult to set up LaunchDarkly due to its UI being different than our own tool's UI. Although we created documentation and a Wiki page to help with the setup, the initial experience was still challenging.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use LaunchDarkly to enable or disable features in different environments, which aids in testing features before production. It's integrated with our backend and frontend, simplifying feature management and improving workflow efficiency.
Simplifies Feature Management but Needs UI Improvements
What do you like best about the product?
I appreciate LaunchDarkly’s experimentation features alongside its feature flag management. It's easy to define segments and activate features accordingly, offering great simplicity and transparency. Managing access to functionalities for multiple users with ease and clarity is highly valuable because it makes oversight and administration straightforward.
What do you dislike about the product?
I found the initial setup of LaunchDarkly rather difficult, requiring a substantial amount of engineering effort to migrate our existing feature flag management to their platform. Additionally, there are issues with the user interface related to setting new rules and automatic expiry dates for feature flags. Often, when trying to save an expiry date, it doesn’t get saved properly, or it's not clearly visible.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use LaunchDarkly to organize feature flags, manage which users see functionalities, and experiment with new features. This helps analyze usage results and make data-driven decisions on future developments, with simplicity and transparency in the process.
Makes managing feature access across environments easy
What do you like best about the product?
I really like how easy it is to control which users or groups get access to certain features without needing to involve engineers or deploy new code. I mostly use segments to manage university access in our product, and being able to make changes instantly across production and QA is super convenient. It gives our team a lot of flexibility and control without technical complexity.
What do you dislike about the product?
The interface can feel a bit overwhelming at first, especially with so many options and settings. It took me a while to understand how segments, flags, and environments all work together. I also wish there was a simpler way to clean up or manage older segments and flags — things can get cluttered over time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
LaunchDarkly helps us manage feature access without needing engineering support for every change. We can easily control which universities get access to specific features and roll things out gradually or in stages. This reduces the risk of bugs affecting all users at once, speeds up our ability to launch updates, and gives our team more independence to manage things directly in QA and production.
A great productA Powerful and Flexible Feature Flagging Platform
What do you like best about the product?
• Easy setup of feature flags with a developer-friendly interface
• Powerful targeting rules and progressive rollout capabilities
• Useful for A/B testing and internal testing scenarios
• Good documentation and SDK support across multiple platforms
• Powerful targeting rules and progressive rollout capabilities
• Useful for A/B testing and internal testing scenarios
• Good documentation and SDK support across multiple platforms
What do you dislike about the product?
• Flag cleanup and lifecycle management can be painful. As flags accumulate over time, tracking unused or deprecated ones becomes tedious. There are features and integrations in launch darkly that make this easier but still requires user interactions to make it a safe process.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
LaunchDarkly allows us to get features into production in smaller chunks and allows us to internally test features before releasing it for public consumption. It allows us to move faster and feel safer when launching new features.
Simple and easy to use feature flag service
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use, being able to rollout new features on the fly
What do you dislike about the product?
It is expensive compared to alternatives due to per seat pricing model
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Launching new features using feature gates that can be enabled to a certain set of users for our product.
Very easy to enable and disable feature flags with access control.
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to enable or disable feature flags at the cluster level.
Fine-grained control to toggle feature flags at the namespace level within a cluster.
Role-based authorization, allowing admins to define who can manage flags in environments like pre-prod and prod.
Support for multiple targeting rules per flag, enabling more complex rollout strategies.
Well-defined default states for flags, ensuring predictable behavior when rules don’t match.
The ability to tag flags by feature or team, making them easier to organize and manage.
Fine-grained control to toggle feature flags at the namespace level within a cluster.
Role-based authorization, allowing admins to define who can manage flags in environments like pre-prod and prod.
Support for multiple targeting rules per flag, enabling more complex rollout strategies.
Well-defined default states for flags, ensuring predictable behavior when rules don’t match.
The ability to tag flags by feature or team, making them easier to organize and manage.
What do you dislike about the product?
The search experience for feature flags could be improved. Currently, if I need to search for multiple flags, I have to open multiple sessions or tabs. The interface doesn't allow simultaneous searches unless the flags are already tagged or filtered together.
It would be helpful to enable bulk editing or bulk tagging of feature flags across multiple environments.
When a flag has multiple rules, the UI can become cluttered. A more intuitive rule builder or rule grouping would improve usability.
It would be helpful to enable bulk editing or bulk tagging of feature flags across multiple environments.
When a flag has multiple rules, the UI can become cluttered. A more intuitive rule builder or rule grouping would improve usability.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In our project, LaunchDarkly provides critical control over feature enablement across different clusters and namespaces, allowing us to:
Quickly enable or disable features in specific clusters or namespaces without requiring new deployments.
Use RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) to control who can manage feature toggles in environments like dev, pre-prod, and prod, enhancing governance and security.
Integrate with our CI/CD pipelines to automate flag updates as part of the deployment process, reducing manual effort and human error.
Run experiments and A/B tests within targeted namespaces to validate new features before a broader rollout.
Quickly enable or disable features in specific clusters or namespaces without requiring new deployments.
Use RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) to control who can manage feature toggles in environments like dev, pre-prod, and prod, enhancing governance and security.
Integrate with our CI/CD pipelines to automate flag updates as part of the deployment process, reducing manual effort and human error.
Run experiments and A/B tests within targeted namespaces to validate new features before a broader rollout.
my Launch darkly review
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use and setup the LD flags for our feature controls
What do you dislike about the product?
To be honest no issues with this service yet I observed
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
control our production feature with this
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