grafana/docs/sources/setup-grafana/configure-grafana/feature-toggles/index.md

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[/docs/grafana/latest/setup-grafana/configure-grafana/feature-toggles/]	Learn about feature toggles, which you can enable or disable.	Configure feature toggles	150

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]({{< relref "../_index.md#feature_toggles" >}}). 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.

Feature toggles

Some 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)
featureHighlights	Highlight Grafana Enterprise features
exploreMixedDatasource	Enable mixed datasource in Explore	Yes
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.	Yes
topnav	Enables new top navigation and page layouts	Yes
cloudWatchCrossAccountQuerying	Enables cross-account querying in CloudWatch datasources	Yes
newPanelChromeUI	Show updated look and feel of grafana-ui PanelChrome: panel header, icons, and menu	Yes
accessTokenExpirationCheck	Enable OAuth access_token expiration check and token refresh using the refresh_token
emptyDashboardPage	Enable the redesigned user interface of a dashboard page that includes no panels	Yes
disablePrometheusExemplarSampling	Disable Prometheus exemplar sampling
logsSampleInExplore	Enables access to the logs sample feature in Explore	Yes
logsContextDatasourceUi	Allow datasource to provide custom UI for context view	Yes
prometheusDataplane	Changes responses to from Prometheus to be compliant with the dataplane specification. In particular it sets the numeric Field.Name from 'Value' to the value of the __name__ label when present.	Yes
lokiMetricDataplane	Changes metric responses from Loki to be compliant with the dataplane specification.	Yes
dataplaneFrontendFallback	Support dataplane contract field name change for transformations and field name matchers where the name is different	Yes
alertingNotificationsPoliciesMatchingInstances	Enables the preview of matching instances for notification policies	Yes
useCachingService	When turned on, the new query and resource caching implementation using a wire service inject will be used in place of the previous middleware implementation
advancedDataSourcePicker	Enable a new data source picker with contextual information, recently used order and advanced mode	Yes

Preview 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
publicDashboards	Enables public access to dashboards
migrationLocking	Lock database during migrations
correlations	Correlations page
newDBLibrary	Use jmoiron/sqlx rather than xorm for a few backend services
validateDashboardsOnSave	Validate dashboard JSON POSTed to api/dashboards/db
autoMigrateOldPanels	Migrate old angular panels to supported versions (graph, table-old, worldmap, etc)
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
accessControlOnCall	Access control primitives for OnCall
nestedFolders	Enable folder nesting
alertingNoNormalState	Stop maintaining state of alerts that are not firing
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
enableElasticsearchBackendQuerying	Enable the processing of queries and responses in the Elasticsearch data source through backend
faroDatasourceSelector	Enable the data source selector within the Frontend Apps section of the Frontend Observability
enableDatagridEditing	Enables the edit functionality in the datagrid panel
dataSourcePageHeader	Apply new pageHeader UI in data source edit page
sqlDatasourceDatabaseSelection	Enables previous SQL data source dataset dropdown behavior

Experimental feature toggles

These 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
newTraceViewHeader	Shows the new trace view header
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
redshiftAsyncQueryDataSupport	Enable async query data support for Redshift
athenaAsyncQueryDataSupport	Enable async query data support for Athena
showDashboardValidationWarnings	Show warnings when dashboards do not validate against the schema
mysqlAnsiQuotes	Use double quotes to escape keyword in a MySQL query
showTraceId	Show trace ids for requests
alertingBacktesting	Rule backtesting API for alerting
editPanelCSVDragAndDrop	Enables drag and drop for CSV and Excel files
lokiQuerySplitting	Split large interval queries into subqueries with smaller time intervals
lokiQuerySplittingConfig	Give users the option to configure split durations for Loki queries
individualCookiePreferences	Support overriding cookie preferences per user
onlyExternalOrgRoleSync	Prohibits a user from changing organization roles synced with external auth providers
traceqlSearch	Enables the 'TraceQL Search' tab for the Tempo datasource which provides a UI to generate TraceQL queries
prometheusMetricEncyclopedia	Replaces the Prometheus query builder metric select option with a paginated and filterable component
timeSeriesTable	Enable time series table transformer & sparkline cell type
prometheusResourceBrowserCache	Displays browser caching options in Prometheus data source configuration
influxdbBackendMigration	Query InfluxDB InfluxQL without the proxy
clientTokenRotation	Replaces the current in-request token rotation so that the client initiates the rotation
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.
unifiedRequestLog	Writes error logs to the request logger
pyroscopeFlameGraph	Changes flame graph to pyroscope one
extraThemes	Enables extra themes
lokiPredefinedOperations	Adds predefined query operations to Loki query editor
pluginsFrontendSandbox	Enables the plugins frontend sandbox
cloudWatchLogsMonacoEditor	Enables the Monaco editor for CloudWatch Logs queries
exploreScrollableLogsContainer	Improves the scrolling behavior of logs in Explore
recordedQueriesMulti	Enables writing multiple items from a single query within Recorded Queries
alertingLokiRangeToInstant	Rewrites eligible loki range queries to instant queries
flameGraphV2	New version of flame graph with new features

Development feature toggles

The following toggles require explicitly setting Grafana's [app mode]({{< relref "../_index.md#app_mode" >}}) to 'development' before you can enable this feature toggle. These features tend to be experimental.

Feature toggle name	Description
entityStore	SQL-based entity store (requires storage flag also)
externalServiceAuth	Starts an OAuth2 authentication provider for external services