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Feature Flag Planner

Guide & Documentation

Canary Rollouts, Kill Switches & Flag Debt Deprecation Tracker

Plan safe canary deployments, incremental percentage rollouts, emergency kill switches, and scheduled flag clean-up conditions to eliminate technical debt.

How to Manage Feature Flags

01

Define Flag Key & Owner

Assign a snake_case flag key, primary engineering owner, and target release milestone.

02

Configure Canary Percentage & Kill Switch

Start with 5%–10% canary traffic and ensure an instantaneous kill switch is operational.

03

Schedule Flag Retirement

Specify explicit removal conditions (e.g. 'Remove 7 days after 100% stable rollout') to avoid dead code.

Flag Planner Features

Percentage-Based Canary Rollouts

Visually track rollout percentages from internal beta testers to 100% production traffic.

Emergency Kill Switch Auditing

Verify instant operational circuit breakers before promoting code to production environments.

Flag Debt Deprecation Tracking

Attach clear sunset conditions to prevent permanent 'temporary' feature flags from polluting the codebase.

Feature Flag Best Practices

  • §1Treat every feature flag as technical debt from the day it is merged; file a deprecation ticket immediately.
  • §2Never use feature flags for long-term customer permissions or authorization logic.
  • §3Test both flag states (enabled and disabled) in your automated CI regression suites.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the purpose of a feature flag kill switch?
A kill switch allows operations or engineers to disable a broken feature instantaneously without redeploying code or initiating a risky rollback.
When should a feature flag be cleaned up?
Feature flags should be removed within 1 to 2 weeks after reaching 100% stable production rollout without incidents.
Is this tool stored locally?
Yes, all rollout configurations and owner notes persist privately in your browser's local storage.