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
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
internationalization	Enables internationalization	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
disableElasticsearchBackendQuerying	Disable the processing of queries and responses in the Elasticsearch data source through backend

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
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
alertingNoNormalState	Stop maintaining state of alerts that are not firing
renderAuthJWT	Uses JWT-based auth for rendering instead of relying on remote cache

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
dashboardPreviews	Create and show thumbnails for dashboard search results
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
publicDashboardsEmailSharing	Enables public dashboard sharing to be restricted to only allowed emails
lokiLive	Support WebSocket streaming for loki (early prototype)
lokiDataframeApi	Use experimental loki api for WebSocket streaming (early prototype)
storage	Configurable storage for dashboards, datasources, and resources
exploreMixedDatasource	Enable mixed datasource in Explore
newTraceView	Shows the new trace view design
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
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
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
drawerDataSourcePicker	Changes the user experience for data source selection to a drawer.
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
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.
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
dataplaneFrontendFallback	Support dataplane contract field name change for transformations and field name matchers where the name is different

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
k8s	Explore native k8s integrations
entityStore	SQL-based entity store (requires storage flag also)
nestedFolders	Enable folder nesting
externalServiceAuth	Starts an OAuth2 authentication provider for external services