Archiving and Deleting Feature Flags

This topic explains how to archive and delete a feature flag that is no longer required in your project. Unlaunch Console lets you archive and delete feature flags that are not needed any more.

Enabled flags can not be archived. You must disable a feature flag before archiving it.

As a good practice, we recommend archiving feature flags that are not in use anymore or have been rolled out at a 100%. This reduces the amount of data that is sent back to your server-side SDKs on initial sync.

Difference Between Archiving and Deleting

Archiving recycles the flag and hides it from your users and SDKs. It doesn’t permanently delete the flag and you have the option to Un-archive it later. Delete on the other hand will permanently delete feature flag and its associated data. It is an irreversible operation. We have provided this distinction to encourage the practice of safely archived feature flags that are not in use, without worrying about losing anything permanently. One thing to note is that you cannot re-use the flag key of an archived flag when creating a new flag. If you want to re-use the same flag key, you must delete the old flag first.

Archiving Feature Flags

To archive a flag, click on Feature Flags in the right sidebar. Once the page loads, click on the ‘Settings’ tab. Click on the Archive button at the bottom of the screen.

Viewing and Restoring Archive Feature Flags

To view archive flag, click on ‘Feature Flags’ in the right sidebar. Click Archived option on the top of the screen. It will show all the archived flags.

Note: We will add the option to restore archive flag in the near future.

Deleting Feature Flags

Archived feature flags are deleted permanently from Unlaunch. You can create a new feature flag with the deleted flag key, it will not flagged as a duplicate.

To delete a flag, click on ‘Feature Flags’ in the right sidebar. Click Archived option on the top of the screen, now click on Delete button besides feature flag name.