Custom Flags Dashboard

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Flags let you control feature releases and experiment rollouts and enable A/B tests or targeted deliveries without code changes. Custom Flags Dashboard serves as the central hub where you can see your flags, A/B tests, targeted deliveries, and multi-armed bandit optimizations, along with their statuses. Custom Flags Dashboard also includes metadata about the flag rule's experiment types, targeting rules, and their environment.

Overview

Clicking on the flag's name takes you to the flag details page, where you can adjust configurations, view metrics, or edit settings.

Expand a flag or environment to see details such as traffic allocation, audience, and metric results. You can also collapse these rows.

Click Expand all to view all nested flag details. Click Collapse All to close the flag details.

Column descriptions

Custom Flags Dashboard columns provide the key information required to monitor and review your experiments and targeted deliveries efficiently.

  • Name – Name of the item. Clicking on a flag or rule name takes you to the details page.
  • Key – Key of the flag or rule.
  • Status – The flag and environment's current status, such as Ready to Run, Running, Concluded, Draft, or Paused. See New flag and rule lifecycle management FAQs
  • Type – The rule's type, such as Targeted Delivery, A/B Test, or Multi-armed bandit. See Flag rules.
  • Modified– Date when the item was last modified. 
  • Created – Date when the items were created. 
  • Creator – Email address of who created the item.
  • Audience – The rule's audience. 
  • Traffic allocation – The rule's percentage of total traffic included. 
  • Days running – How long the rule was running.
  • Primary metric – The A/B test rule's or multi-armed bandit rule's primary metric.
  • Variations – The rule's variation names.

Customize 

You can tailor Custom Flags Dashboard to make managing your flags and experiments easier. Customizing your view lets you focus on the data that matters most to you, improving efficiency and visibility over your experiments and targeted deliveries. Custom Flags Dashboard reflects any update instantly.  

Filter

Click Apply Filters to create filters based on criteria like status, environment, or audience. This helps you find the most relevant flags.

Customize columns

Click Show/Hide Columns. Select or deselect the various columns to be displayed. Click Select all to select all checkboxes. Click Deselect All to clear all checkboxes.

Click bookmark and share to share the filtered view. When you turn on and off column visibility, your choices are added to the URL of this page. This lets you create a bookmark of this page in your browser or share this page by copying the URL and sending it through email or instant message.

More options

Archive a flag

Archiving a flag lets you remove it from Custom Flags Dashboard and the data file. To archive a flag, it must not be active in your highest-priority environment, typically production.

Optimizely Feature Experimentation keeps your flag and rule data so you can unarchive the flag later.

  1. Click More options on Custom Flags Dashboard for the flag you want to archive.
  2. Select Archive from the drop-down list.

Unarchive a flag

To unarchive a flag, you first need to update Custom Flags Dashboard to show archived flags. 

  1. Click Apply Filters.
  2. Click Add Filter.
  3. Select Flag > Archive status from the first drop-down list. 
  4. Select is from the middle drop-down list.
  5. Select Yes from the last drop-down list.

After filtering your dashboard,

  1. Click More options for the flag you want to unarchive.
  2. Select Unarchive from the drop-down list.

Manage permissions

Click More options for the flag you want to manage the permissions for. Select Manage Permissions from the drop-down list. See Granular roles and permissions.

Delete a flag

Click More options for the flag you want to delete. Select Delete from the drop-down list. Click Delete Flag on the confirmation page.