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.
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.
Essential Tool for Safe Feature Releases
What do you like best about the product?
I appreciate the good SDK and developer experience that LaunchDarkly offers, which is crucial for a smooth development process. The use of feature flags to coordinate releases, such as acting as a kill switch for critical parts, enhances operational safety by reducing incidents and response time. Additionally, I value its ability to facilitate friendly user testing of new beta features, allowing for safer experimentation. It enables us to expose beta features to specific customers or internal testers, gather feedback, and roll back instantly if something doesn't work as expected. Furthermore, LaunchDarkly allows us to safely ship code at any time without impacting users until the feature is toggled on.
What do you dislike about the product?
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What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We LaunchDarkly for decoupling deploy from release, safer experimentation, and operational safety. It allows us to ship code safely, conduct beta testing efficiently, and reduce incidents with kill switches for critical components.
Easy to get started & almost perfect
What do you like best about the product?
It's easy to get started and to add new flags, and it doesn't take up much of my time.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish the diff viewer handled complex flags with JSON configurations better.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our organization manages hundreds of feature flags. We primarily use them to ship new feature experiments quickly, and targeting based on different context attributes makes it easier to measure whether the feature works as intended.
Safe, Confident Feature Deployment with LaunchDarkly
What do you like best about the product?
I use LaunchDarkly for launching new features safely, utilizing feature flags and gradual rollout features. The ability to deploy code to production with feature flags turned off, and turning them on gradually increases my confidence in releases by making it easier to rollback in case of any regression. I find percentage rollouts and targeted rollouts, which are enhanced by custom rules and contexts, incredibly useful. These features help in catching bugs and edge cases early before they escalate into incidents. The easy enable and disable functionality of feature flags significantly aids in quickly mitigating issues. Additionally, the initial setup of LaunchDarkly is very easy, contributing to a seamless integration into my workflow.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a bit of a learning curve for the complex features in LaunchDarkly. Understanding rule precedence and creating complex custom rules requires time and practice, which can initially be challenging.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use LaunchDarkly to safely launch new features with feature flags and gradual rollouts, enhancing confidence in releases. It helps catch bugs early and manage issues quickly with easy enable/disable options, boosting overall deployment safety.
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