LaunchDarkly
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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.
Effortless Feature Management with Powerful Targeting
What do you like best about the product?
I find LaunchDarkly extremely beneficial for our feature flagging needs, as it provides robust feature control and simplifies configurations. I love how easy it is to configure and use, making it straightforward for my team to implement any changes swiftly without much complexity. I particularly appreciate the ability to conduct gradual rollouts, which allows us to manage feature releases efficiently and minimize risk. This capability, paired with the power to gate releases and create targeted configurations, helps us isolate features to specific geographies or user segments, which is crucial for compliance and targeted user experiences. The functionality to create custom segments and tailor targeting rules empowers us to manage our user base with high precision. Additionally, our use of both client and server SDKs with LaunchDarkly enhances our flexibility in deployment across different environments. The initial setup also presented no hurdles for us, as it was pretty simple to understand, reinforcing the platform's user-friendly nature.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike the 10,000 user limit on Segments. Even though there is a feature for Big Segments, the migration and usage from standard Segments to Big Segments is not straightforward. Additionally, creating a persistent store in our infrastructure to support Big Segments is an overhead that I find burdensome. This additional requirement is something we just don't want to undertake.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use LaunchDarkly for feature flagging and as a configuration store, enabling controlled feature gating and gradual rollouts to specific regions or user groups. It simplifies complex targeting rules, facilitating compliance with geographical restrictions.
Intuitive and Efficient with Handy Shortcuts
What do you like best about the product?
I love the short cuts to copy keys and the ability to cross check which users and orgs we have on each feature. The product is very intuitive to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing I can think of! This product is very intuitive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
LaunchDarkly organizes of feature distribution system, it's seamless adding relevant users to different flags and segments. Easy to learn, never even had to utilize support.
Facilitate Quick Tests with Flexible Control
What do you like best about the product?
I love the ease of use of LaunchDarkly, as it allows me to change things efficiently and apply various different rules, using user emails, organizations, and algorithms. This flexibility makes it easier to conduct faster tests and allows releasing features to specific users, which is extremely useful for testing elements before a general launch. The ability to have detailed control over different environments and types of users greatly helps in configuring systems only for the right people within the company.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only thing I can think of is that there was one situation this year where the server went down and we were without it for about half a day, which caused some problems in our system.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use LaunchDarkly to easily control different types of users and organizations. It speeds up technical testing, allowing quick releases for specific users, and helps test features before the general launch.
Effortless Feature Management with LaunchDarkly
What do you like best about the product?
I greatly appreciate LaunchDarkly for its ability to efficiently manage feature flags for customer instances. It provides a quick and seamless way to enable or disable application functions, which is incredibly valuable for managing dynamic customer requests, such as enabling AI services. The feature history tracking is another fantastic aspect, allowing me to see past changes made to each feature flag, contributing to better management and oversight. Additionally, the initial setup was remarkably straightforward, thanks in part to the support provided by the LaunchDarkly team. Their guidance made the process smooth and hassle-free.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing that I dislike about LaunchDarkly
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use LaunchDarkly to quickly enable and disable application functions and manage Feature Flags, streamlining the process for customer requests and tracking feature flag changes.
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.
Effortless Feature Rollouts, Needs JSON Improvement
What do you like best about the product?
I absolutely love LaunchDarkly for its excellent capability to facilitate the rollout of new features and manage configurations efficiently. The flexibility it provides by allowing me to easily tweak and play around with configurations for different users is invaluable. I adore the feature of building targeting rules which is immensely useful in addressing various user bases with precision. The feature rollout by percentage is particularly impressive, offering a smooth and calculated deployment. Having previously attempted to build a similar yet basic feature rollout system from scratch, I truly appreciate the advanced and user-friendly solutions that LaunchDarkly provides at a whole new level. It's also very intuitive to use, which made my experience as a new joiner incredibly positive and seamless. LaunchDarkly has significantly simplified feature management, making it an essential part of my toolkit.
What do you dislike about the product?
I find the experience of editing a variation with large JSON files challenging because it becomes difficult to understand what changes have been made. The visibility and clarity of the differences when editing are not optimal, especially for large and complex JSON content.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use LaunchDarkly to rollout features and manage configurations without creating an in-house solution, benefiting from easy targeting rules and variations, including a percentage-based rollout.
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.
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