Configure feature toggles

You use feature toggles, also known as feature flags, to enable or disable features in Grafana. You can turn on feature toggles to try out new functionality in development or test environments.

This page contains a list of available feature toggles. To learn how to turn on feature toggles, refer to our Configure Grafana documentation. Feature toggles are also available to Grafana Cloud Advanced customers. If you use Grafana Cloud Advanced, you can open a support ticket and specify the feature toggles and stack for which you want them enabled.

For more information about feature release stages, refer to Release life cycle for Grafana Labs and Manage feature toggles.

General availability feature toggles

Most generally available features are enabled by default. You can disable these feature by setting the feature flag to “false” in the configuration.

Feature toggle name	Description	Enabled by default
`disableEnvelopeEncryption`	Disable envelope encryption (emergency only)
`publicDashboardsScene`	Enables public dashboard rendering using scenes	Yes
`featureHighlights`	Highlight Grafana Enterprise features
`correlations`	Correlations page	Yes
`cloudWatchCrossAccountQuerying`	Enables cross-account querying in CloudWatch datasources	Yes
`nestedFolders`	Enable folder nesting	Yes
`logsContextDatasourceUi`	Allow datasource to provide custom UI for context view	Yes
`lokiQuerySplitting`	Split large interval queries into subqueries with smaller time intervals	Yes
`influxdbBackendMigration`	Query InfluxDB InfluxQL without the proxy	Yes
`dataplaneFrontendFallback`	Support dataplane contract field name change for transformations and field name matchers where the name is different	Yes
`unifiedRequestLog`	Writes error logs to the request logger	Yes
`recordedQueriesMulti`	Enables writing multiple items from a single query within Recorded Queries	Yes
`logsExploreTableVisualisation`	A table visualisation for logs in Explore	Yes
`transformationsRedesign`	Enables the transformations redesign	Yes
`traceQLStreaming`	Enables response streaming of TraceQL queries of the Tempo data source
`awsAsyncQueryCaching`	Enable caching for async queries for Redshift and Athena. Requires that the datasource has caching and async query support enabled	Yes
`alertingNoDataErrorExecution`	Changes how Alerting state manager handles execution of NoData/Error	Yes
`angularDeprecationUI`	Display Angular warnings in dashboards and panels	Yes
`dashgpt`	Enable AI powered features in dashboards	Yes
`alertingInsights`	Show the new alerting insights landing page	Yes
`panelMonitoring`	Enables panel monitoring through logs and measurements	Yes
`formatString`	Enable format string transformer	Yes
`kubernetesPlaylists`	Use the kubernetes API in the frontend for playlists, and route /api/playlist requests to k8s	Yes
`recoveryThreshold`	Enables feature recovery threshold (aka hysteresis) for threshold server-side expression	Yes
`lokiStructuredMetadata`	Enables the loki data source to request structured metadata from the Loki server	Yes
`addFieldFromCalculationStatFunctions`	Add cumulative and window functions to the add field from calculation transformation	Yes
`annotationPermissionUpdate`	Change the way annotation permissions work by scoping them to folders and dashboards.	Yes
`dashboardSceneForViewers`	Enables dashboard rendering using Scenes for viewer roles	Yes
`dashboardSceneSolo`	Enables rendering dashboards using scenes for solo panels	Yes
`dashboardScene`	Enables dashboard rendering using scenes for all roles	Yes
`ssoSettingsApi`	Enables the SSO settings API and the OAuth configuration UIs in Grafana	Yes
`logsInfiniteScrolling`	Enables infinite scrolling for the Logs panel in Explore and Dashboards	Yes
`exploreMetrics`	Enables the new Grafana Metrics Drilldown core app	Yes
`alertingSimplifiedRouting`	Enables users to easily configure alert notifications by specifying a contact point directly when editing or creating an alert rule	Yes
`logRowsPopoverMenu`	Enable filtering menu displayed when text of a log line is selected	Yes
`lokiQueryHints`	Enables query hints for Loki	Yes
`alertingQueryOptimization`	Optimizes eligible queries in order to reduce load on datasources
`promQLScope`	In-development feature that will allow injection of labels into prometheus queries.	Yes
`groupToNestedTableTransformation`	Enables the group to nested table transformation	Yes
`newPDFRendering`	New implementation for the dashboard-to-PDF rendering	Yes
`tlsMemcached`	Use TLS-enabled memcached in the enterprise caching feature	Yes
`ssoSettingsSAML`	Use the new SSO Settings API to configure the SAML connector	Yes
`cloudWatchNewLabelParsing`	Updates CloudWatch label parsing to be more accurate	Yes
`accessActionSets`	Introduces action sets for resource permissions. Also ensures that all folder editors and admins can create subfolders without needing any additional permissions.	Yes
`newDashboardSharingComponent`	Enables the new sharing drawer design	Yes
`pluginProxyPreserveTrailingSlash`	Preserve plugin proxy trailing slash.
`pinNavItems`	Enables pinning of nav items	Yes
`alertingApiServer`	Register Alerting APIs with the K8s API server	Yes
`cloudWatchRoundUpEndTime`	Round up end time for metric queries to the next minute to avoid missing data	Yes
`newFiltersUI`	Enables new combobox style UI for the Ad hoc filters variable in scenes architecture	Yes
`alertingQueryAndExpressionsStepMode`	Enables step mode for alerting queries and expressions	Yes
`useSessionStorageForRedirection`	Use session storage for handling the redirection after login	Yes
`userStorageAPI`	Enables the user storage API	Yes
`azureMonitorDisableLogLimit`	Disables the log limit restriction for Azure Monitor when true. The limit is enabled by default.
`preinstallAutoUpdate`	Enables automatic updates for pre-installed plugins	Yes
`reportingUseRawTimeRange`	Uses the original report or dashboard time range instead of making an absolute transformation	Yes
`alertingUIOptimizeReducer`	Enables removing the reducer from the alerting UI when creating a new alert rule and using instant query	Yes
`azureMonitorEnableUserAuth`	Enables user auth for Azure Monitor datasource only	Yes
`alertingNotificationsStepMode`	Enables simplified step mode in the notifications section	Yes
`lokiLabelNamesQueryApi`	Defaults to using the Loki `/labels` API instead of `/series`	Yes

Public preview feature toggles

Public preview features are supported by our Support teams, but might be limited to enablement, configuration, and some troubleshooting.

Feature toggle name	Description
`panelTitleSearch`	Search for dashboards using panel title
`autoMigrateOldPanels`	Migrate old angular panels to supported versions (graph, table-old, worldmap, etc)
`autoMigrateGraphPanel`	Migrate old graph panel to supported time series panel - broken out from autoMigrateOldPanels to enable granular tracking
`autoMigrateTablePanel`	Migrate old table panel to supported table panel - broken out from autoMigrateOldPanels to enable granular tracking
`autoMigratePiechartPanel`	Migrate old piechart panel to supported piechart panel - broken out from autoMigrateOldPanels to enable granular tracking
`autoMigrateWorldmapPanel`	Migrate old worldmap panel to supported geomap panel - broken out from autoMigrateOldPanels to enable granular tracking
`autoMigrateStatPanel`	Migrate old stat panel to supported stat panel - broken out from autoMigrateOldPanels to enable granular tracking
`disableAngular`	Dynamic flag to disable angular at runtime. The preferred method is to set `angular_support_enabled` to `false` in the [security] settings, which allows you to change the state at runtime.
`grpcServer`	Run the GRPC server
`renderAuthJWT`	Uses JWT-based auth for rendering instead of relying on remote cache
`refactorVariablesTimeRange`	Refactor time range variables flow to reduce number of API calls made when query variables are chained
`faroDatasourceSelector`	Enable the data source selector within the Frontend Apps section of the Frontend Observability
`enableDatagridEditing`	Enables the edit functionality in the datagrid panel
`sqlDatasourceDatabaseSelection`	Enables previous SQL data source dataset dropdown behavior
`reportingRetries`	Enables rendering retries for the reporting feature
`externalServiceAccounts`	Automatic service account and token setup for plugins
`cloudWatchBatchQueries`	Runs CloudWatch metrics queries as separate batches
`pdfTables`	Enables generating table data as PDF in reporting
`canvasPanelPanZoom`	Allow pan and zoom in canvas panel
`regressionTransformation`	Enables regression analysis transformation
`onPremToCloudMigrations`	Enable the Grafana Migration Assistant, which helps you easily migrate on-prem resources, such as dashboards, folders, and data source configurations, to your Grafana Cloud stack.
`alertingSaveStateCompressed`	Enables the compressed protobuf-based alert state storage
`azureMonitorPrometheusExemplars`	Allows configuration of Azure Monitor as a data source that can provide Prometheus exemplars
`ssoSettingsLDAP`	Use the new SSO Settings API to configure LDAP
`improvedExternalSessionHandling`	Enables improved support for OAuth external sessions. After enabling this feature, users might need to re-authenticate themselves.
`elasticsearchCrossClusterSearch`	Enables cross cluster search in the Elasticsearch datasource
`improvedExternalSessionHandlingSAML`	Enables improved support for SAML external sessions. Ensure the NameID format is correctly configured in Grafana for SAML Single Logout to function properly.
`alertRuleRestore`	Enables the alert rule restore feature

Experimental feature toggles

Experimental features are early in their development lifecycle and so are not yet supported in Grafana Cloud. Experimental features might be changed or removed without prior notice.

Feature toggle name	Description
`live-service-web-worker`	This will use a webworker thread to processes events rather than the main thread
`queryOverLive`	Use Grafana Live WebSocket to execute backend queries
`lokiExperimentalStreaming`	Support new streaming approach for loki (prototype, needs special loki build)
`storage`	Configurable storage for dashboards, datasources, and resources
`canvasPanelNesting`	Allow elements nesting
`disableSecretsCompatibility`	Disable duplicated secret storage in legacy tables
`logRequestsInstrumentedAsUnknown`	Logs the path for requests that are instrumented as unknown
`showDashboardValidationWarnings`	Show warnings when dashboards do not validate against the schema
`mysqlAnsiQuotes`	Use double quotes to escape keyword in a MySQL query
`alertingBacktesting`	Rule backtesting API for alerting
`editPanelCSVDragAndDrop`	Enables drag and drop for CSV and Excel files
`lokiShardSplitting`	Use stream shards to split queries into smaller subqueries
`lokiQuerySplittingConfig`	Give users the option to configure split durations for Loki queries
`individualCookiePreferences`	Support overriding cookie preferences per user
`influxqlStreamingParser`	Enable streaming JSON parser for InfluxDB datasource InfluxQL query language
`lokiLogsDataplane`	Changes logs responses from Loki to be compliant with the dataplane specification.
`disableSSEDataplane`	Disables dataplane specific processing in server side expressions.
`alertStateHistoryLokiSecondary`	Enable Grafana to write alert state history to an external Loki instance in addition to Grafana annotations.
`alertStateHistoryLokiPrimary`	Enable a remote Loki instance as the primary source for state history reads.
`alertStateHistoryLokiOnly`	Disable Grafana alerts from emitting annotations when a remote Loki instance is available.
`extraThemes`	Enables extra themes
`lokiPredefinedOperations`	Adds predefined query operations to Loki query editor
`frontendSandboxMonitorOnly`	Enables monitor only in the plugin frontend sandbox (if enabled)
`pluginsDetailsRightPanel`	Enables right panel for the plugins details page
`awsDatasourcesTempCredentials`	Support temporary security credentials in AWS plugins for Grafana Cloud customers
`mlExpressions`	Enable support for Machine Learning in server-side expressions
`metricsSummary`	Enables metrics summary queries in the Tempo data source
`datasourceAPIServers`	Expose some datasources as apiservers.
`provisioning`	Next generation provisioning… and git
`permissionsFilterRemoveSubquery`	Alternative permission filter implementation that does not use subqueries for fetching the dashboard folder
`aiGeneratedDashboardChanges`	Enable AI powered features for dashboards to auto-summary changes when saving
`sseGroupByDatasource`	Send query to the same datasource in a single request when using server side expressions. The `cloudWatchBatchQueries` feature toggle should be enabled if this used with CloudWatch.
`libraryPanelRBAC`	Enables RBAC support for library panels
`wargamesTesting`	Placeholder feature flag for internal testing
`externalCorePlugins`	Allow core plugins to be loaded as external
`pluginsAPIMetrics`	Sends metrics of public grafana packages usage by plugins
`enableNativeHTTPHistogram`	Enables native HTTP Histograms
`disableClassicHTTPHistogram`	Disables classic HTTP Histogram (use with enableNativeHTTPHistogram)
`kubernetesSnapshots`	Routes snapshot requests from /api to the /apis endpoint
`kubernetesDashboards`	Use the kubernetes API in the frontend for dashboards
`kubernetesRestore`	Allow restoring objects in k8s
`kubernetesClientDashboardsFolders`	Route the folder and dashboard service requests to k8s
`datasourceQueryTypes`	Show query type endpoints in datasource API servers (currently hardcoded for testdata, expressions, and prometheus)
`queryService`	Register /apis/query.grafana.app/ – will eventually replace /api/ds/query
`queryServiceRewrite`	Rewrite requests targeting /ds/query to the query service
`queryServiceFromUI`	Routes requests to the new query service
`cachingOptimizeSerializationMemoryUsage`	If enabled, the caching backend gradually serializes query responses for the cache, comparing against the configured `[caching]max_value_mb` value as it goes. This can can help prevent Grafana from running out of memory while attempting to cache very large query responses.
`prometheusCodeModeMetricNamesSearch`	Enables search for metric names in Code Mode, to improve performance when working with an enormous number of metric names
`alertmanagerRemoteSecondary`	Enable Grafana to sync configuration and state with a remote Alertmanager.
`alertmanagerRemotePrimary`	Enable Grafana to have a remote Alertmanager instance as the primary Alertmanager.
`alertmanagerRemoteOnly`	Disable the internal Alertmanager and only use the external one defined.
`extractFieldsNameDeduplication`	Make sure extracted field names are unique in the dataframe
`dashboardNewLayouts`	Enables experimental new dashboard layouts
`pluginsSkipHostEnvVars`	Disables passing host environment variable to plugin processes
`tableSharedCrosshair`	Enables shared crosshair in table panel
`kubernetesFeatureToggles`	Use the kubernetes API for feature toggle management in the frontend
`newFolderPicker`	Enables the nested folder picker without having nested folders enabled
`scopeApi`	In-development feature flag for the scope api using the app platform.
`sqlExpressions`	Enables using SQL and DuckDB functions as Expressions.
`nodeGraphDotLayout`	Changed the layout algorithm for the node graph
`kubernetesAggregator`	Enable grafana’s embedded kube-aggregator
`expressionParser`	Enable new expression parser
`disableNumericMetricsSortingInExpressions`	In server-side expressions, disable the sorting of numeric-kind metrics by their metric name or labels.
`queryLibrary`	Enables Query Library feature in Explore
`logsExploreTableDefaultVisualization`	Sets the logs table as default visualisation in logs explore
`alertingListViewV2`	Enables the new alert list view design
`dashboardRestore`	Enables deleted dashboard restore feature
`alertingCentralAlertHistory`	Enables the new central alert history.
`failWrongDSUID`	Throws an error if a datasource has an invalid UIDs
`dataplaneAggregator`	Enable grafana dataplane aggregator
`lokiSendDashboardPanelNames`	Send dashboard and panel names to Loki when querying
`alertingPrometheusRulesPrimary`	Uses Prometheus rules as the primary source of truth for ruler-enabled data sources
`exploreLogsShardSplitting`	Used in Logs Drilldown to split queries into multiple queries based on the number of shards
`exploreLogsAggregatedMetrics`	Used in Logs Drilldown to query by aggregated metrics
`exploreLogsLimitedTimeRange`	Used in Logs Drilldown to limit the time range
`homeSetupGuide`	Used in Home for users who want to return to the onboarding flow or quickly find popular config pages
`appSidecar`	Enable the app sidecar feature that allows rendering 2 apps at the same time
`rolePickerDrawer`	Enables the new role picker drawer design
`pluginsSriChecks`	Enables SRI checks for plugin assets
`unifiedStorageBigObjectsSupport`	Enables to save big objects in blob storage
`timeRangeProvider`	Enables time pickers sync
`prometheusUsesCombobox`	Use new combobox component for Prometheus query editor
`playlistsReconciler`	Enables experimental reconciler for playlists
`exploreMetricsRelatedLogs`	Display Related Logs in Grafana Metrics Drilldown
`prometheusSpecialCharsInLabelValues`	Adds support for quotes and special characters in label values for Prometheus queries
`enableExtensionsAdminPage`	Enables the extension admin page regardless of development mode
`enableSCIM`	Enables SCIM support for user and group management
`crashDetection`	Enables browser crash detection reporting to Faro.
`jaegerBackendMigration`	Enables querying the Jaeger data source without the proxy
`useV2DashboardsAPI`	Use the v2 kubernetes API in the frontend for dashboards
`unifiedHistory`	Displays the navigation history so the user can navigate back to previous pages
`investigationsBackend`	Enable the investigations backend API
`k8SFolderCounts`	Enable folder’s api server counts
`k8SFolderMove`	Enable folder’s api server move
`teamHttpHeadersMimir`	Enables LBAC for datasources for Mimir to apply LBAC filtering of metrics to the client requests for users in teams
`templateVariablesUsesCombobox`	Use new combobox component for template variables
`grafanaAdvisor`	Enables Advisor app
`elasticsearchImprovedParsing`	Enables less memory intensive Elasticsearch result parsing
`datasourceConnectionsTab`	Shows defined connections for a data source in the plugins detail page
`newLogsPanel`	Enables the new logs panel in Explore
`pluginsCDNSyncLoader`	Load plugins from CDN synchronously
`assetSriChecks`	Enables SRI checks for Grafana JavaScript assets

Development feature toggles

The following toggles require explicitly setting Grafana’s app mode to ‘development’ before you can enable this feature toggle. These features tend to be experimental.

Feature toggle name	Description
`grafanaAPIServerWithExperimentalAPIs`	Register experimental APIs with the k8s API server, including all datasources
`grafanaAPIServerEnsureKubectlAccess`	Start an additional https handler and write kubectl options