Guides

Welcome to the LaunchDarkly guides! This category of our documentation contains best practices guides and tutorials to help you succeed with LaunchDarkly, whether you’re a new or an experienced LaunchDarkly account member. Read on and follow the exercises in the guides below to learn more about what you can do with feature flags and LaunchDarkly features. Want a more interactive experience? Read our Tutorials for hands-on examples, or try the guided tutorials and virtual labs available at LaunchDarkly Academy. Here are our guide categories:

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Cheatsheets

These guides are high-level summaries of how to achieve certain outcomes with LaunchDarkly features, such as AgentControl, Experimentation, and guarded rollouts. Read all cheatsheets

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Feature flags

These guides help you excel in the use of the LaunchDarkly fundamental product feature: the feature flag. Read all feature flags guides Recommended guides:

• Creating flags
• Best practices for upgrading users to contexts

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AgentControl

Learn how to use LaunchDarkly AgentControl with specific, complete examples. You can use AgentControl to customize, test, and roll out new large language models (LLMs) within your generative AI applications. Read all AgentControl guides

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Observability

Learn how to use the LaunchDarkly observability features with specific, complete examples. You can use observability to monitor errors, logs, traces, and metrics across your applications, helping you identify bugs, troubleshoot issues, and optimize performance. Read all Observability guides

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Experimentation

Learn how to use the LaunchDarkly Experimentation feature to make data-driven decisions about anything, from infrastructure to end users. Read all Experimentation guides

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Metrics

These guides teach you how to create and use metrics to measure audience behaviors affected by flags. Read all metrics guides Recommended guides:

• Example metrics

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Account management

These guides teach you how to manage your LaunchDarkly account. Read all account management guides Recommended guides:

• LaunchDarkly for large enterprise teams
• Migrating your existing feature flag solution to LaunchDarkly

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Teams and custom roles

The LaunchDarkly teams and custom roles features let you manage groups of account members with precise permissions at scale. Read all teams and custom roles guides Recommended guides:

• Creating roles

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Integrations

Learn how to connect LaunchDarkly to the software you use every day. Read all integrations guides

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Infrastructure

These guides teach you how to incorporate LaunchDarkly at every level of your organization, from customer-facing websites to unit tests. Read all infrastructure guides Recommended guides:

• Using LaunchDarkly in serverless environments
• Managing flags with Terraform

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SDKs

These guides help developers learn how to work with the LaunchDarkly SDKs, which evaluate feature flags in your application’s code. Read all SDK guides Recommended guides:

• Use cases for SDK wrappers

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REST API

The LaunchDarkly REST API lets you perform any action you can do in the LaunchDarkly platform’s UI. To learn more, read the API documentation. Read all API guides

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Additional resources

Access blog posts, videos, and answers to frequently asked questions to help you learn best practices and strategies for using feature flags on our Additional resources page.