Feature Flags Documentation

Get started with Harness Feature Flags and explore its capabilities.

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This documentation is for Harness Feature Flags. If you use Feature Management Engine (FME), go to the FME documentation for feature and SDK updates.

Harness Feature Flags (FF) is a feature management solution that lets you change your software functionality without deploying code. It lets you hide code or behavior without shipping new software versions. A feature flag is like a powerful if statement.

Get started with the basics

Get started with Feature Flags

Learn the basics of Harness Feature Flags.

Create, update, and view Flags

Learn how to create different types of flags, edit them, and enable them.

Use Feature Flag SDKs

Choose the right SDK for your application from our numerous client and server SDKs, and then configure it to monitor your flags.

Manage your flags

Manage target users and groups

Control which users or groups see which variation of a flag.

Add a prerequisite to a flag

Add a flag as dependency to another flag.

Manage flags using Git Experience

Manage flags using a YAML file in your Git repository.

Integrate flags with Jira

Link flags to Jira issues so you and your team can easily see the associations, jump to creating a flag from a jira ticket, and see a list of jira tickets linked to a flag.

Get data on your flags

View activities and analytics for flags, and track anonymous and monthly active users (MAUs).

Explore other features

Connect flags to monitored services

When you connect Feature Flags to monitored services you can be notified when there are service issues related to flag changes.

Use pipelines with Feature Flags

Use pipelines to combine a flag with other actions like adding Jira issues, creating notifications, and adding approvals.

Use the Harness Relay Proxy

The relay proxy lets your app connect directly to Feature Flag services without having to make a significant number of outbound connections.

Add policies for a flag

This topic gives you an overview of Harness Policy Engine and includes an example for how to add a policy for a flag.