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LaunchDarkly

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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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LaunchDarkly is a versatile software that has been utilized by a variety of users to tackle different challenges and improve their …
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Great product!

10 out of 10
May 04, 2021
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We use LaunchDarkly to control features in our authenticated web and mobile applications. It allows us to test features in production, …
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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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  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://launchdarkly.com/pricing

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  • Free Trial
  • 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

LaunchDarkly Videos

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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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Community Insights

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LaunchDarkly is a versatile software that has been utilized by a variety of users to tackle different challenges and improve their development processes. One of the primary use cases is implementing and testing features without full deployment, which reduces risk and increases user acceptance. Users have found that LaunchDarkly allows them to address individual problems by introducing new features and ensuring they meet needs and resolve issues. By hiding incomplete features from end users, the software enables more frequent code deployment, reducing code conflicts.

Another common use case for LaunchDarkly is facilitating Trunk Based / Continuous Deployment workflows and targeting specific user segments. Users rely on the software to run UI experiments and determine the optimal customer experience. It has been particularly valuable for software development teams in managing released features in customer-facing products. Feature flags are used to hide large feature sets until they are complete, documented, and ready for customer use. Additionally, LaunchDarkly enables the rollout of new code variants and passing new features to a limited number of users before a full release, thanks to its ability to set up targeting based on different values.

Despite its wide-ranging benefits, some users have mentioned that the limited number of seats for engineers has slowed down the adoption of LaunchDarkly. However, those who have integrated it into their workflows have observed significant improvements in their product development process. The software has allowed development teams to deploy code faster and with more confidence, ultimately improving quality standards by enabling selective feature rollouts to internal testing accounts before broader releases.

In addition, LaunchDarkly has proved invaluable for feature flagging, testing, and hiding of features, allowing for constant deploys without affecting production systems. It ensures stability during structural changes and enables effective management of feature rollouts across different teams or platforms. Testing features in production has been beneficial for identifying issues that may not have been caught in QA. Furthermore, LaunchDarkly serves as an environment for CI/CD pipelines, providing control over what is seen live without mimicking a live environment on staging.

Notably, LaunchDarkly's ease of use has been widely appreciated by users, contributing to improved team productivity. The software allows for controlled rollouts to different user groups and helps manage new feature development effectively. With its ability to speed up time to delivery by deploying changes behind feature flags until ready for customer exposure, engineers have found it to be an invaluable tool. Feature flags also allow for showing specific customers specific features, further enhancing the flexibility provided by LaunchDarkly.

Users of LaunchDarkly have provided several recommendations based on their experiences with the product. The three most common recommendations are as follows:

  1. Many users suggest getting a trial version of LaunchDarkly to experience its ease of use firsthand. This allows potential customers to evaluate the platform and determine if it aligns with their needs.

  2. Another common recommendation is to leverage the tagging service provided by LaunchDarkly. This feature allows users to group and organize their flags, making it easier to manage and track different features and configurations.

  3. Several users recommend exploring the latest news and updates from LaunchDarkly. Staying informed about new features, best practices, and industry trends can help users make the most of the platform and stay ahead in their feature flagging efforts.

It is important for potential buyers to consider these recommendations when evaluating LaunchDarkly as a feature flagging solution for their development and release management needs.

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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
LaunchDarkly is been used by the product team to enable/disable feature[s] per client.
  • Enable disable feature based on flags
  • Limit feature client based
  • Costs for enterprise features are expensive.
LaunchDarkly is well suited for [a] developer that would like to enable/disable feature flag-based.
  • Less downtime
  • Improved developer
  • Customer experiences
1- Create and enable feature flag is easiest
2- Implement segment feature
No glitches or outages so far. After the LAUNNCHDARKLY implementation we have seem any slowness in our platform
Selected LaunchDarkly due to its manages feature flags server-side applications, control who has access to new features.
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Developers
3
Site Reliability team
  • SOC2 compliance
  • Feature per client organization
  • Enable or disable feature per environment
  • Integrating TERRAFORM with LAUNNCHDARKLY
  • Selling/enabling features client based
It fits out business case
No
  • Product Features
We were seeking for a product to enable or disable feature from our platform
Understand the number is seats will impact your implementation method.
  • Implemented in-house
Yes
Feature flag POV and segments POV
Change management was a major issue with the implementation
We need to implement TERRAFORM with Lauchdarkly to enable the compliance and control the who was enabling or disabling feature flags in our env.
  • The compliance tem requires change management processes.
Yes I do.
  • no training
Yes it was
Just right for you how type of product
TERRAFORM works great with feature flag
No - we have not done any customization to the interface
No - we have not done any custom code
N/A
The overall support is very responsive
Not sure. I have the professional package and the support is very responsive
No
Unfortunately I don't have one to share
  • Feature flag
  • Segments
No
The platform didn't go down since we implemented it
No issue with availability at all
  • Our platform
  • TERRAFORM
N/A

  • Our platform
No
  • API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
It was easy to implement it
Leverage the Api integrating with TERRAFORM actually can save seats and still compliance.
The vendor was very accessible
Easy to work even after sale
Increase seats above professional license the costs require negotiation
N/a
No
  • N/a
  • N/a
Yes
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