Targeting with flags

Overview

This category explains how to use a flag's Targeting tab to control which of your customers receive a variation of a feature flag, based on their context. Configuring which contexts receive which variation of a flag is referred to as a flag's targeting.

To learn more about how your application and LaunchDarkly SDKs work together to serve feature flag variations, read LaunchDarkly's architecture.

Using the Targeting tab

You can use the Targeting tab to roll features out for internal testing, private betas, or usability tests before performing a broader rollout. You can even set expiration dates for flag targeting if you know you only want customers to receive a flag for a specific period of time.

The Targeting tab uses the language of targeted "contexts." Contexts are people, services, machines, or other resources that encounter feature flags in your product. You can target end users of your application, devices, systems, organizations, or anything else that can be uniquely identified.

Here is an image of a flag's Targeting tab:

Related content

Here are the topics in this category:

• Targeting rules
• Percentage rollouts
• Individual targeting
• Bulk targeting
• Flag prerequisites