LaunchDarkly feature flags

Community-contributed integration

This integration is community-maintained. Reference: ory/integrates/feature-flags/launchdarkly.

LaunchDarkly is a feature management platform with flags, experiments, targeting rules, and observability. This integration passes Ory identity attributes (traits, subscription tier, organization, groups) to LaunchDarkly as multi-kind contexts so feature rollouts can target by identity attribute.

How it works

This isn't a webhook integration. Feature evaluation happens in your application code through the LaunchDarkly SDK. The integration is the convention for what to pass:

// In your app, after Ory session resolution:
const session = await ory.sessions.toSession()
const identity = session.data.identity

const context = {
  kind: "user",
  key: identity.id, // stable bucketing
  email: identity.traits.email,
  organization: identity.metadata_public?.org_id,
  subscription_tier: identity.metadata_public?.subscription_tier,
}

const flag = await ldClient.variation("my-feature", context, false)

What to pass to LaunchDarkly

Ory source	LaunchDarkly context attribute
identity.id	key — stable bucketing
identity.traits.email	email — per-email overrides for internal testing
metadata_public.org_id	multi-kind organization context
metadata_public.subscription_tier	tier
metadata_public.groups	groups

Notable

• Pass stable identifiers as key. Use identity.id, not email, since email can change.
• Use LaunchDarkly multi-kind contexts (a separate organization context attached to the user context) for cleaner B2B per-account targeting.

Resources

• LaunchDarkly SDK documentation
• LaunchDarkly multi-kind contexts
• Reference: ory/integrates/feature-flags/launchdarkly