Configure feature toggles

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Configure feature toggles

You use feature toggles, also known as feature flags, to turn experimental or beta features on and off in Grafana. Although we do not recommend using these features in production, 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.

Stable feature toggles

Some stable features are enabled by default. You can disable a stable feature by setting the feature flag to “false” in the configuration.

Feature toggle name	Description	Enabled by default
`disableEnvelopeEncryption`	Disable envelope encryption (emergency only)
`database_metrics`	Add Prometheus metrics for database tables
`lokiMonacoEditor`	Access to Monaco query editor for Loki	Yes
`featureHighlights`	Highlight Grafana Enterprise features
`commandPalette`	Enable command palette	Yes
`cloudWatchDynamicLabels`	Use dynamic labels instead of alias patterns in CloudWatch datasource	Yes
`internationalization`	Enables internationalization	Yes
`cloudWatchCrossAccountQuerying`	Enables cross-account querying in CloudWatch datasources	Yes
`accessTokenExpirationCheck`	Enable OAuth access_token expiration check and token refresh using the refresh_token
`disablePrometheusExemplarSampling`	Disable Prometheus exemplar sampling
`logsSampleInExplore`	Enables access to the logs sample feature in Explore	Yes

Beta feature toggles

Feature toggle name	Description
`trimDefaults`	Use cue schema to remove values that will be applied automatically
`panelTitleSearch`	Search for dashboards using panel title
`prometheusAzureOverrideAudience`	Experimental. Allow override default AAD audience for Azure Prometheus endpoint
`swaggerUi`	Serves swagger UI
`migrationLocking`	Lock database during migrations
`newDBLibrary`	Use jmoiron/sqlx rather than xorm for a few backend services
`validateDashboardsOnSave`	Validate dashboard JSON POSTed to api/dashboards/db
`autoMigrateGraphPanels`	Replace the angular graph panel with timeseries
`datasourceLogger`	Logs all datasource requests
`accessControlOnCall`	Access control primitives for OnCall
`alertingNoNormalState`	Stop maintaining state of alerts that are not firing
`topNavCommandPalette`	Launch the Command Palette from the top navigation search box

Alpha feature toggles

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

Feature toggle name	Description
`returnUnameHeader`	Return user login as header for authenticated requests
`alertingBigTransactions`	Use big transactions for alerting database writes
`dashboardPreviews`	Create and show thumbnails for dashboard search results
`live-config`	Save Grafana Live configuration in SQL tables
`live-pipeline`	Enable a generic live processing pipeline
`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
`publicDashboards`	Enables public access to dashboards
`lokiLive`	Support WebSocket streaming for loki (early prototype)
`lokiDataframeApi`	Use experimental loki api for WebSocket streaming (early prototype)
`dashboardComments`	Enable dashboard-wide comments
`annotationComments`	Enable annotation comments
`storage`	Configurable storage for dashboards, datasources, and resources
`supportBundles`	Support bundles for troubleshooting
`exploreMixedDatasource`	Enable mixed datasource in Explore
`tracing`	Adds trace ID to error notifications
`correlations`	Correlations page
`datasourceQueryMultiStatus`	Introduce HTTP 207 Multi Status for api/ds/query
`traceToMetrics`	Enable trace to metrics links
`prometheusWideSeries`	Enable wide series responses in the Prometheus datasource
`canvasPanelNesting`	Allow elements nesting
`scenes`	Experimental framework to build interactive dashboards
`disableSecretsCompatibility`	Disable duplicated secret storage in legacy tables
`logRequestsInstrumentedAsUnknown`	Logs the path for requests that are instrumented as unknown
`dataConnectionsConsole`	Enables a new top-level page called Connections. This page is an experiment that provides a better experience when you install and configure data sources and other plugins.
`topnav`	New top nav and page layouts
`flameGraph`	Show the flame graph
`redshiftAsyncQueryDataSupport`	Enable async query data support for Redshift
`athenaAsyncQueryDataSupport`	Enable async query data support for Athena
`increaseInMemDatabaseQueryCache`	Enable more in memory caching for database queries
`newPanelChromeUI`	Show updated look and feel of grafana-ui PanelChrome: panel header, icons, and menu
`showDashboardValidationWarnings`	Show warnings when dashboards do not validate against the schema
`mysqlAnsiQuotes`	Use double quotes to escape keyword in a MySQL query
`elasticsearchBackendMigration`	Use Elasticsearch as backend data source
`secureSocksDatasourceProxy`	Enable secure socks tunneling for supported core datasources
`authnService`	Use new auth service to perform authentication
`sessionRemoteCache`	Enable using remote cache for user sessions
`alertingBacktesting`	Rule backtesting API for alerting
`editPanelCSVDragAndDrop`	Enables drag and drop for CSV and Excel files
`logsContextDatasourceUi`	Allow datasource to provide custom UI for context view
`onlyExternalOrgRoleSync`	Prohibits a user from changing organization roles synced with external auth providers
`prometheusMetricEncyclopedia`	Replaces the Prometheus query builder metric select option with a paginated and filterable component
`influxdbBackendMigration`	Query InfluxDB InfluxQL without the proxy
`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.

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
`dashboardPreviewsAdmin`	Manage the dashboard previews crawler process from the UI
`showFeatureFlagsInUI`	Show feature flags in the settings UI
`publicDashboardsEmailSharing`	Allows public dashboard sharing to be restricted to only allowed emails
`k8s`	Explore native k8s integrations
`k8sDashboards`	Save dashboards via k8s
`dashboardsFromStorage`	Load dashboards from the generic storage interface
`export`	Export grafana instance (to git, etc)
`grpcServer`	Run GRPC server
`entityStore`	SQL-based entity store (requires storage flag also)
`queryLibrary`	Reusable query library
`nestedFolders`	Enable folder nesting