Enabling & Disabling Feature Flags
Some features are not enabled by default within LogScale and must be switched on.
This can be achieved in two ways:
Using Configuration Settings – requires changing the configuration and restarting the service
Using Mutations – enabled through a GraphQL mutation on a running service
Using humioctl – enabled through a GraphQL mutation through the command line tool Command line tools and scripts
Using Configuration Settings
You can enable feature flags within the configuration file for LogScale
using the INITIAL_FEATURE_FLAGS
variable. To enable a
feature, you must prefix its name with a
+
and to disable use
-
. For example:
INITIAL_FEATURE_FLAGS=+UserRoles,-UsagePage
Using Mutations
Using a mutation to enable the feature means that the configuration and service do not need to be restarted to gain access to the new feature. It is good practice if you find the feature useful to enable it in the configuration file in addition to the mutation.
To enable a particular feature, you can submit the following request through your chosen API tool or the Accessing GraphQL using API Explorer.
mutation {
enableFeature(feature: PermissionTokens)
}
The response will confirm the feature has been enabled:
{
"data": {
"enableFeature": true
}
}
Features can be disabled with a different mutation:
mutation {
disableFeature(feature: PermissionTokens)
}
Which returns a confirmation that the item has been disabled:
{
"data": {
"disableFeature": true
}
}
Using humioctl
Features can be enabled and disabled using humioctl.
To enable a feature, use the feature-flags
option.
Depending on the feature you may be able to enable the feature
globally, for a user, or an entire organization.
For example, to enable
PermissionTokens
globally:
$ humioctl feature-flags enable --global PermissionTokens
Which returns confirmation:
Enabled feature "PermissionTokens" globally
To disable a feature:
$ humioctl feature-flags disable --global PermissionTokens
Which returns confirmation:
Enabled feature "PermissionTokens" globally