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Excellent functionality, could be a bit more usable
March 18, 2021

Excellent functionality, could be a bit more usable

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with LaunchDarkly

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).
  • 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).
  • Lower number of deployments (since I can use FF to configure features).
  • Near real time configuration of outage banners.
  • Super easy and fast to configure FFs.
It still feels a bit rough, like some UX is missing. I often have to navigate through various FF settings to find what I'm looking for. I often have a second LD window open when I create a new flag, so that I can imitate the styles and comments on other flags.
It doesn't appears to slow anything down, though I do see the extra network traffic (but only because I'm looking for it as I develop client-server APIs).
A few months ago, after I configured users in the client, it took several minutes for them to show up in LD, which wasted my time as I waited for updates. Also a few months ago, I had real trouble using the Debugger feature. Sometimes it worked (slowly), and other times it just showed nothing. This would be helpful if it worked consistently.
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Do you think LaunchDarkly delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with LaunchDarkly's feature set?

Yes

Did LaunchDarkly live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of LaunchDarkly go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy LaunchDarkly again?

Yes

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.