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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. 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.

For more information about feature release stages, refer to Release life cycle for Grafana Labs and Manage feature toggles.

General availability feature toggles

Generally available 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)
`publicDashboards`	[Deprecated] Public dashboards are now enabled by default; to disable them, use the configuration setting. This feature toggle will be removed in the next major version.	Yes
`featureHighlights`	Highlight Grafana Enterprise features
`correlations`	Correlations page
`exploreContentOutline`	Content outline sidebar	Yes
`returnToPrevious`	Enables the return to previous context functionality	Yes
`cloudWatchCrossAccountQuerying`	Enables cross-account querying in CloudWatch datasources	Yes
`nestedFolders`	Enable folder nesting	Yes
`nestedFolderPicker`	Enables the new folder picker to work with nested folders. Requires the nestedFolders feature toggle	Yes
`logsContextDatasourceUi`	Allow datasource to provide custom UI for context view	Yes
`lokiQuerySplitting`	Split large interval queries into subqueries with smaller time intervals	Yes
`prometheusMetricEncyclopedia`	Adds the metrics explorer component to the Prometheus query builder as an option in metric select	Yes
`influxdbBackendMigration`	Query InfluxDB InfluxQL without the proxy	Yes
`prometheusDataplane`	Changes responses to from Prometheus to be compliant with the dataplane specification. In particular, when this feature toggle is active, the numeric `Field.Name` is set from ‘Value’ to the value of the `__name__` label.	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
`enableElasticsearchBackendQuerying`	Enable the processing of queries and responses in the Elasticsearch data source through backend	Yes
`recordedQueriesMulti`	Enables writing multiple items from a single query within Recorded Queries	Yes
`pluginsDynamicAngularDetectionPatterns`	Enables fetching Angular detection patterns for plugins from GCOM and fallback to hardcoded ones	Yes
`logsExploreTableVisualisation`	A table visualisation for logs in Explore	Yes
`transformationsRedesign`	Enables the transformations redesign	Yes
`traceQLStreaming`	Enables response streaming of TraceQL queries of the Tempo data source
`awsAsyncQueryCaching`	Enable caching for async queries for Redshift and Athena. Requires that the datasource has caching and async query support enabled	Yes
`prometheusConfigOverhaulAuth`	Update the Prometheus configuration page with the new auth component	Yes
`influxdbSqlSupport`	Enable InfluxDB SQL query language support with new querying UI	Yes
`alertingNoDataErrorExecution`	Changes how Alerting state manager handles execution of NoData/Error	Yes
`angularDeprecationUI`	Display Angular warnings in dashboards and panels	Yes
`dashgpt`	Enable AI powered features in dashboards	Yes
`alertingInsights`	Show the new alerting insights landing page	Yes
`panelMonitoring`	Enables panel monitoring through logs and measurements	Yes
`recoveryThreshold`	Enables feature recovery threshold (aka hysteresis) for threshold server-side expression	Yes
`lokiStructuredMetadata`	Enables the loki data source to request structured metadata from the Loki server	Yes
`managedPluginsInstall`	Install managed plugins directly from plugins catalog	Yes
`annotationPermissionUpdate`	Change the way annotation permissions work by scoping them to folders and dashboards.	Yes
`exploreMetrics`	Enables the new Explore Metrics core app	Yes
`alertingSimplifiedRouting`	Enables users to easily configure alert notifications by specifying a contact point directly when editing or creating an alert rule	Yes
`logRowsPopoverMenu`	Enable filtering menu displayed when text of a log line is selected	Yes
`lokiQueryHints`	Enables query hints for Loki	Yes
`enablePluginsTracingByDefault`	Enable plugin tracing for all external plugins	Yes
`alertingQueryOptimization`	Optimizes eligible queries in order to reduce load on datasources
`betterPageScrolling`	Removes CustomScrollbar from the UI, relying on native browser scrollbars	Yes

Public preview feature toggles

Public preview features are supported by our Support teams, but might be limited to enablement, configuration, and some troubleshooting.

Feature toggle name	Description
`panelTitleSearch`	Search for dashboards using panel title
`autoMigrateOldPanels`	Migrate old angular panels to supported versions (graph, table-old, worldmap, etc)
`autoMigrateGraphPanel`	Migrate old graph panel to supported time series panel - broken out from autoMigrateOldPanels to enable granular tracking
`autoMigrateTablePanel`	Migrate old table panel to supported table panel - broken out from autoMigrateOldPanels to enable granular tracking
`autoMigratePiechartPanel`	Migrate old piechart panel to supported piechart panel - broken out from autoMigrateOldPanels to enable granular tracking
`autoMigrateWorldmapPanel`	Migrate old worldmap panel to supported geomap panel - broken out from autoMigrateOldPanels to enable granular tracking
`autoMigrateStatPanel`	Migrate old stat panel to supported stat panel - broken out from autoMigrateOldPanels to enable granular tracking
`autoMigrateXYChartPanel`	Migrate old XYChart panel to new XYChart2 model
`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.
`newVizTooltips`	New visualizations tooltips UX
`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
`refactorVariablesTimeRange`	Refactor time range variables flow to reduce number of API calls made when query variables are chained
`faroDatasourceSelector`	Enable the data source selector within the Frontend Apps section of the Frontend Observability
`enableDatagridEditing`	Enables the edit functionality in the datagrid panel
`sqlDatasourceDatabaseSelection`	Enables previous SQL data source dataset dropdown behavior
`reportingRetries`	Enables rendering retries for the reporting feature
`externalServiceAccounts`	Automatic service account and token setup for plugins
`formatString`	Enable format string transformer
`transformationsVariableSupport`	Allows using variables in transformations
`cloudWatchBatchQueries`	Runs CloudWatch metrics queries as separate batches
`teamHttpHeaders`	Enables Team LBAC for datasources to apply team headers to the client requests
`awsDatasourcesNewFormStyling`	Applies new form styling for configuration and query editors in AWS plugins
`addFieldFromCalculationStatFunctions`	Add cumulative and window functions to the add field from calculation transformation
`pdfTables`	Enables generating table data as PDF in reporting
`ssoSettingsApi`	Enables the SSO settings API and the OAuth configuration UIs in Grafana
`canvasPanelPanZoom`	Allow pan and zoom in canvas panel
`regressionTransformation`	Enables regression analysis transformation
`groupToNestedTableTransformation`	Enables the group to nested table transformation
`newPDFRendering`	New implementation for the dashboard-to-PDF rendering

Experimental feature toggles

Experimental 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
`publicDashboardsScene`	Enables public dashboard rendering using scenes
`lokiExperimentalStreaming`	Support new streaming approach for loki (prototype, needs special loki build)
`storage`	Configurable storage for dashboards, datasources, and resources
`datasourceQueryMultiStatus`	Introduce HTTP 207 Multi Status for api/ds/query
`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
`showDashboardValidationWarnings`	Show warnings when dashboards do not validate against the schema
`mysqlAnsiQuotes`	Use double quotes to escape keyword in a MySQL query
`alertingBacktesting`	Rule backtesting API for alerting
`editPanelCSVDragAndDrop`	Enables drag and drop for CSV and Excel files
`lokiQuerySplittingConfig`	Give users the option to configure split durations for Loki queries
`individualCookiePreferences`	Support overriding cookie preferences per user
`influxqlStreamingParser`	Enable streaming JSON parser for InfluxDB datasource InfluxQL query language
`lokiLogsDataplane`	Changes logs responses from Loki to be compliant with the dataplane specification.
`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
`extraThemes`	Enables extra themes
`lokiPredefinedOperations`	Adds predefined query operations to Loki query editor
`pluginsFrontendSandbox`	Enables the plugins frontend sandbox
`dashboardEmbed`	Allow embedding dashboard for external use in Code editors
`frontendSandboxMonitorOnly`	Enables monitor only in the plugin frontend sandbox (if enabled)
`lokiFormatQuery`	Enables the ability to format Loki queries
`vizAndWidgetSplit`	Split panels between visualizations and widgets
`prometheusIncrementalQueryInstrumentation`	Adds RudderStack events to incremental queries
`awsDatasourcesTempCredentials`	Support temporary security credentials in AWS plugins for Grafana Cloud customers
`mlExpressions`	Enable support for Machine Learning in server-side expressions
`metricsSummary`	Enables metrics summary queries in the Tempo data source
`featureToggleAdminPage`	Enable admin page for managing feature toggles from the Grafana front-end
`permissionsFilterRemoveSubquery`	Alternative permission filter implementation that does not use subqueries for fetching the dashboard folder
`aiGeneratedDashboardChanges`	Enable AI powered features for dashboards to auto-summary changes when saving
`sseGroupByDatasource`	Send query to the same datasource in a single request when using server side expressions. The `cloudWatchBatchQueries` feature toggle should be enabled if this used with CloudWatch.
`libraryPanelRBAC`	Enables RBAC support for library panels
`wargamesTesting`	Placeholder feature flag for internal testing
`externalCorePlugins`	Allow core plugins to be loaded as external
`pluginsAPIMetrics`	Sends metrics of public grafana packages usage by plugins
`idForwarding`	Generate signed id token for identity that can be forwarded to plugins and external services
`enableNativeHTTPHistogram`	Enables native HTTP Histograms
`kubernetesPlaylists`	Use the kubernetes API in the frontend for playlists, and route /api/playlist requests to k8s
`kubernetesSnapshots`	Routes snapshot requests from /api to the /apis endpoint
`cachingOptimizeSerializationMemoryUsage`	If enabled, the caching backend gradually serializes query responses for the cache, comparing against the configured `[caching]max_value_mb` value as it goes. This can can help prevent Grafana from running out of memory while attempting to cache very large query responses.
`prometheusPromQAIL`	Prometheus and AI/ML to assist users in creating a query
`alertmanagerRemoteSecondary`	Enable Grafana to sync configuration and state with a remote Alertmanager.
`alertmanagerRemotePrimary`	Enable Grafana to have a remote Alertmanager instance as the primary Alertmanager.
`alertmanagerRemoteOnly`	Disable the internal Alertmanager and only use the external one defined.
`extractFieldsNameDeduplication`	Make sure extracted field names are unique in the dataframe
`dashboardSceneForViewers`	Enables dashboard rendering using Scenes for viewer roles
`dashboardSceneSolo`	Enables rendering dashboards using scenes for solo panels
`dashboardScene`	Enables dashboard rendering using scenes for all roles
`logsInfiniteScrolling`	Enables infinite scrolling for the Logs panel in Explore and Dashboards
`flameGraphItemCollapsing`	Allow collapsing of flame graph items
`pluginsSkipHostEnvVars`	Disables passing host environment variable to plugin processes
`tableSharedCrosshair`	Enables shared crosshair in table panel
`kubernetesFeatureToggles`	Use the kubernetes API for feature toggle management in the frontend
`newFolderPicker`	Enables the nested folder picker without having nested folders enabled
`onPremToCloudMigrations`	In-development feature that will allow users to easily migrate their on-prem Grafana instances to Grafana Cloud.
`promQLScope`	In-development feature that will allow injection of labels into prometheus queries.
`sqlExpressions`	Enables using SQL and DuckDB functions as Expressions.
`nodeGraphDotLayout`	Changed the layout algorithm for the node graph
`kubernetesAggregator`	Enable grafana aggregator
`expressionParser`	Enable new expression parser
`usePrometheusFrontendPackage`	Use the @grafana/prometheus frontend package in core Prometheus.

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 name	Description
`unifiedStorage`	SQL-based k8s storage
`grafanaAPIServerWithExperimentalAPIs`	Register experimental APIs with the k8s API server
`grafanaAPIServerEnsureKubectlAccess`	Start an additional https handler and write kubectl options
`kubernetesQueryServiceRewrite`	Rewrite requests targeting /ds/query to the query service
`panelTitleSearchInV1`	Enable searching for dashboards using panel title in search v1