Guarded Releases

Guarded rollouts add an automated safety layer to your feature releases. They progressively increase traffic to a new variation while watching your metrics for regressions. When a metric shows a statistically significant negative impact, the rollout can roll back automatically before users feel the harm.

How guarded rollouts work

A guarded rollout compares the new variation against the control across the metrics you select. It uses sequential testing to decide whether the difference represents a real regression. The rollout also requires a minimum number of contexts at each step to keep its decisions reliable.

When the rollout detects a regression, it flags the affected metric. If you enable automatic rollback, LaunchDarkly reverts the release for you.

To learn more about the mechanism, read Guarded rollouts in the LaunchDarkly documentation.

Topics

This section covers:

• Data privacy and consent: Understand what telemetry guarded rollouts use and how to integrate consent and GDPR requirements.