Features flags API

All methods require administrator authorization.

Notice that currently the API only supports boolean and percentage-of-time gate values.

List all features

Get a list of all persisted features, with its gate values.

GET /features

curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/features

Example response:

[
  {
    "name": "experimental_feature",
    "state": "off",
    "gates": [
      {
        "key": "boolean",
        "value": false
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "name": "new_library",
    "state": "on",
    "gates": [
      {
        "key": "boolean",
        "value": true
      }
    ]
  }
]

Set or create a feature

Set a feature’s gate value. If a feature with the given name doesn’t exist yet it will be created. The value can be a boolean, or an integer to indicate percentage of time.

POST /features/:name

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
`name`	string	yes	Name of the feature to create or update
`value`	integer/string	yes	`true` or `false` to enable/disable, or an integer for percentage of time
`feature_group`	string	no	A Feature group name
`user`	string	no	A GitLab username
`group`	string	no	A GitLab group’s path, for example `gitlab-org`
`project`	string	no	A projects path, for example `gitlab-org/gitlab-foss`

Note that you can enable or disable a feature for a feature_group, a user, a group, and a project in a single API call.

curl --data "value=30" --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/features/new_library

Example response:

{
  "name": "new_library",
  "state": "conditional",
  "gates": [
    {
      "key": "boolean",
      "value": false
    },
    {
      "key": "percentage_of_time",
      "value": 30
    }
  ]
}