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 toggles for experimental and beta features, which you can enable or disable.	Configure feature toggles	150

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]({{< 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.

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
featureHighlights	Highlight Grafana Enterprise features
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 examplar 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
topnav	Displays new top nav and page layouts
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-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.
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
datasourceOnboarding	Enable data source onboarding page
secureSocksDatasourceProxy	Enable secure socks tunneling for supported core datasources
authnService	Use new auth service to perform authentication
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

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
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
apiserver	Add a k8s API server proxy
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