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What is LaunchDarkly?

LaunchDarkly provides a feature management platform that enables DevOps and Product teams to use feature flags at scale. This allows for greater collaboration among team members, and increased usability testing before full-scale feature deployment.

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What is LaunchDarkly?

LaunchDarkly provides a feature management platform that enables DevOps and Product teams to use feature flags at scale. This allows for greater collaboration among team members, and increased usability testing before full-scale feature deployment.

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  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Product Details

What is LaunchDarkly?

LaunchDarkly is a feature management platform that aims to empower all teams to safely deliver and control software through feature flags. By separating code deployments from feature releases, LaunchDarkly enables users to deploy faster, reduce risk, and iterate continuously. The vendor states that over 1500 organizations around the world -- including Microsoft, Atlassian, and IBM -- use LaunchDarkly to control the entire feature lifecycle from concept, to launch, to value.

LaunchDarkly Features

  • Supported: Change Management
  • Supported: Requirements Management
  • Supported: Audience Targeting
  • Supported: Campaign Segmentation
  • Supported: Split Testing
  • Supported: Statistical Relevance Analysis
  • Supported: Test Scheduling
  • Supported: Deployment Management
  • Supported: Software Development
  • Supported: Web App Development
  • Supported: Reporting/Analytics
  • Supported: Release Management
  • Supported: Quality Assurance Management
  • Supported: Continuous Delivery
  • Supported: Continuous Deployment
  • Supported: Testing Management

LaunchDarkly Screenshots

Screenshot of DashboardScreenshot of Dashboard - Feature Flag New SearchScreenshot of Target Individual UsersScreenshot of Target Users By Rule MatchScreenshot of Approval Settings Per EnvironmentScreenshot of Experiments DashboardScreenshot of Scheduled ChangesScreenshot of Code References

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LaunchDarkly Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

LaunchDarkly provides a feature management platform that enables DevOps and Product teams to use feature flags at scale. This allows for greater collaboration among team members, and increased usability testing before full-scale feature deployment.

Optimizely Web Experimentation, ConfigCat, and Firebase are common alternatives for LaunchDarkly.

Reviewers rate Performance highest, with a score of 8.1.

The most common users of LaunchDarkly are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Use LaunchDarkly to level up your Release On Demand capabilities!

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 13, 2021
Vetted Review
Verified User
LaunchDarkly
2 years of experience
We use LaunchDarkly to improve our Release-on-Demand capabilities and cycle time of features for our business. It allows our product delivery teams to decouple from one another and launch features independent of a release window. It is currently being used by a few teams, but we are looking to expand the capability across as many business applications/components as possible in the near future.
  • Top Notch Documentation.
  • RESt API / SDK's that are easy to code against.
  • High performing CDN's to avoid performance bottlenecks.
Cons
  • More advanced communication around price increases.
  • Usage based pricing option as opposed to trying to guess what you will need.
Great use cases include wrapping code logic with a flag that enables you to release the feature at will without requiring any deployment or downtime for end users. This also allows different microservice teams to implement dependent functionality at their own pace, turning everything on with the toggle of a flag. Less appropriate uses would be to wrap every feature with a flag as this can bloat out code and cause feature flag sprawl.

Deploy fast and easy

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 13, 2021
DM
Vetted Review
Verified User
LaunchDarkly
1 year of experience
The platform allows us to implement and test features without full deployment. In turn, the risk is greatly reduced and user acceptance is much higher when deployment occurs. Currently it is being used internally. LaunchDarkly allows us to address individual problems one issue at a time by introducing a new feature and make sure it meets the needs and resolves the problem.
  • Measures performance of new app features.
  • Turn off features that might be causing problems in production.
  • Delivers true continuous integration.
  • Manage features without full deployment.
Cons
  • Overview across environments could be enhanced in the tree view (add a button) similar to dashboard UX.
If a new feature should be added but unsure of how it will actually work or how users will accept the new enhancement or change, this tool allows you test and measure initial results. This saves so much time and energy knowing the results before it is deployed and might have low user adoption or acceptance.

Continuous Deployment Made Easy

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 21, 2021
DY
Vetted Review
Verified User
LaunchDarkly
5 years of experience
We predominantly use LaunchDarkly to facilitate our Trunk Based / Continuous Deployment workflow, enabling us to deploy multiple times a day and target specific user segments. We also use it to run UI experiments that help us determine the optimal customer experience.
  • Feature management
  • A/B and multivariate testing
  • Segmentation
Cons
  • More support for Edge-side solutions
It's hard to imagine building applications without LaunchDarkly - it's become an integral part of our deployment process. The frequency with which we can deliver to production wouldn't be possible without it. I highly recommend LaunchDarkly for any professional engineering team who wants to deploy often and simultaneously minimise risk.

Excellent functionality, could be a bit more usable

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 18, 2021
Vetted Review
Verified User
LaunchDarkly
2 years of experience
We use to:
- enable or disable features in our 3 different environments (Dev/Test/Prod), to manage testing and deployment
- display or configure an outage banner
- set some values (to override system values)

This gives us excellent flexibility without having to modify deployment configs or rebuild code.
  • Manage different environments.
  • Create and update feature flags/values.
  • Report end users (so we potentially group them and configure flags by group).
Cons
  • It would be nice to see a feature flag's settings against all environments at once.
  • It would be to have a "array" type flag for related but different settings (eg, enableA and enableB could be enable: [a, b]).
  • It would be nice have customizable columns on the Users page (eg, if I want to inject a new meta data).
Very likely to recommend, though I know nothing about -- and am concerned about -- cost.

Also -- and I haven't looked -- but in a future project I will look for alternatives, just to make sure I'm using the best solution.

LaunchDarkly makes releasing functionality using flags a breeze.

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 13, 2021
Vetted Review
Verified User
LaunchDarkly
2 years of experience
We use LaunchDarkly to separate the Deploy and Release aspects of changes. The R&D team implements LaunchDarkly flags in code, and then by using the user targeting functionality the QA team can validate the changes with the flag on and off. The main point is testing with the flag off, as this means that the master can be deployed to production at any point with the flag remaining off, so we don't have to worry about breaking existing functionality by using these flags.
  • Easy to use UI
  • Great resiliency
  • Good documentation
  • Forward thinking improvements
  • Good performance
  • Large language support in SDKs
Cons
  • Add an option to mandate change requests.
  • Allow segments to be used in the professional plan.
It is well suited when you are making changes in areas that are already being used and do not want to impact existing customers in any way. Being able to hide all new code behind a flag means your master branch can be deployed even when your new code is not fully finished. It also means you can focus on testing when the flag is off and almost ignore when the flag is on to ensure the master is production-ready.
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