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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. 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 nameDescriptionEnabled by default
disableEnvelopeEncryptionDisable envelope encryption (emergency only)
featureHighlightsHighlight Grafana Enterprise features
exploreMixedDatasourceEnable mixed datasource in ExploreYes
cloudWatchDynamicLabelsUse dynamic labels instead of alias patterns in CloudWatch datasourceYes
dataConnectionsConsoleEnables 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
internationalizationEnables internationalizationYes
cloudWatchCrossAccountQueryingEnables cross-account querying in CloudWatch datasourcesYes
newPanelChromeUIShow updated look and feel of grafana-ui PanelChrome: panel header, icons, and menuYes
accessTokenExpirationCheckEnable OAuth access_token expiration check and token refresh using the refresh_token
emptyDashboardPageEnable the redesigned user interface of a dashboard page that includes no panelsYes
disablePrometheusExemplarSamplingDisable Prometheus exemplar sampling
logsSampleInExploreEnables access to the logs sample feature in ExploreYes
logsContextDatasourceUiAllow datasource to provide custom UI for context viewYes
prometheusDataplaneChanges 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
lokiMetricDataplaneChanges metric responses from Loki to be compliant with the dataplane specification.Yes
dataplaneFrontendFallbackSupport dataplane contract field name change for transformations and field name matchers where the name is differentYes
useCachingServiceWhen turned on, the new query and resource caching implementation using a wire service inject will be used in place of the previous middleware implementation
authenticationConfigUIEnables authentication configuration UIYes
advancedDataSourcePickerEnable a new data source picker with contextual information, recently used order and advanced modeYes

Beta feature toggles

Feature toggle nameDescription
trimDefaultsUse cue schema to remove values that will be applied automatically
panelTitleSearchSearch for dashboards using panel title
prometheusAzureOverrideAudienceExperimental. Allow override default AAD audience for Azure Prometheus endpoint
publicDashboardsEnables public access to dashboards
publicDashboardsEmailSharingEnables public dashboard sharing to be restricted to only allowed emails
migrationLockingLock database during migrations
correlationsCorrelations page
newDBLibraryUse jmoiron/sqlx rather than xorm for a few backend services
validateDashboardsOnSaveValidate dashboard JSON POSTed to api/dashboards/db
autoMigrateOldPanelsMigrate old angular panels to supported versions (graph, table-old, worldmap, etc)
disableAngularDynamic 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.
grpcServerRun the GRPC server
accessControlOnCallAccess control primitives for OnCall
nestedFoldersEnable folder nesting for dashboards and alerts. Note that managed alert rules aren’t supported for nested folders. This feature is only supported for test and development environments.
alertingNoNormalStateStop maintaining state of alerts that are not firing
renderAuthJWTUses JWT-based auth for rendering instead of relying on remote cache
refactorVariablesTimeRangeRefactor time range variables flow to reduce number of API calls made when query variables are chained
enableElasticsearchBackendQueryingEnable the processing of queries and responses in the Elasticsearch data source through backend
enableDatagridEditingEnables the edit functionality in the datagrid panel

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 nameDescription
live-service-web-workerThis will use a webworker thread to processes events rather than the main thread
queryOverLiveUse Grafana Live WebSocket to execute backend queries
lokiLiveSupport WebSocket streaming for loki (early prototype)
storageConfigurable storage for dashboards, datasources, and resources
newTraceViewHeaderShows the new trace view header
datasourceQueryMultiStatusIntroduce HTTP 207 Multi Status for api/ds/query
traceToMetricsEnable trace to metrics links
prometheusWideSeriesEnable wide series responses in the Prometheus datasource
canvasPanelNestingAllow elements nesting
scenesExperimental framework to build interactive dashboards
disableSecretsCompatibilityDisable duplicated secret storage in legacy tables
logRequestsInstrumentedAsUnknownLogs the path for requests that are instrumented as unknown
redshiftAsyncQueryDataSupportEnable async query data support for Redshift
athenaAsyncQueryDataSupportEnable async query data support for Athena
showDashboardValidationWarningsShow warnings when dashboards do not validate against the schema
mysqlAnsiQuotesUse double quotes to escape keyword in a MySQL query
showTraceIdShow trace ids for requests
authnServiceUse new auth service to perform authentication
alertingBacktestingRule backtesting API for alerting
editPanelCSVDragAndDropEnables drag and drop for CSV and Excel files
lokiQuerySplittingSplit large interval queries into subqueries with smaller time intervals
lokiQuerySplittingConfigGive users the option to configure split durations for Loki queries
individualCookiePreferencesSupport overriding cookie preferences per user
onlyExternalOrgRoleSyncProhibits a user from changing organization roles synced with external auth providers
traceqlSearchEnables the ‘TraceQL Search’ tab for the Tempo datasource which provides a UI to generate TraceQL queries
prometheusMetricEncyclopediaReplaces the Prometheus query builder metric select option with a paginated and filterable component
timeSeriesTableEnable time series table transformer & sparkline cell type
prometheusResourceBrowserCacheDisplays browser caching options in Prometheus data source configuration
influxdbBackendMigrationQuery InfluxDB InfluxQL without the proxy
clientTokenRotationReplaces the current in-request token rotation so that the client initiates the rotation
disableSSEDataplaneDisables dataplane specific processing in server side expressions.
alertStateHistoryLokiSecondaryEnable Grafana to write alert state history to an external Loki instance in addition to Grafana annotations.
alertStateHistoryLokiPrimaryEnable a remote Loki instance as the primary source for state history reads.
alertStateHistoryLokiOnlyDisable Grafana alerts from emitting annotations when a remote Loki instance is available.
unifiedRequestLogWrites error logs to the request logger
pyroscopeFlameGraphChanges flame graph to pyroscope one
pluginsAPIManifestKeyUse grafana.com API to retrieve the public manifest key
opensearchDetectVersionEnable version detection in OpenSearch
alertingLokiRangeToInstantRewrites eligible loki range queries to instant queries

Development feature toggles

The following toggles require explicitly setting Grafana’s app mode to ‘development’ before you can enable this feature toggle. These features tend to be experimental.

Feature toggle nameDescription
entityStoreSQL-based entity store (requires storage flag also)
externalServiceAuthStarts an OAuth2 authentication provider for external services