How to add, enable or disable an experimental feature

This document will take you through how to add, enable, or disable an experimental feature in Sourcegraph. Experimental features are not fully released, but we welcome your feedback at feedback@sourcegraph.com or on twitter @sourcegraph!

NOTE: Changing these settings will affect the entire instance. We advise testing settings in a development environment before changing them in production.

Prerequisites

• This document assumes that Sourcegraph is installed
• Assumes you have site-admin privileges on the instance

Steps to enable/disable

1. Navigate to Site Admin > Global settings in the UI, or follow this link format for your externalUrl/site-admin/global-settings
2. Scroll down to find where experimentalFeatures is located. Example:

JSON
"experimentalFeatures": {
    "searchResultsAggregations": true,
    "showCodeMonitoringLogs": false,
},

3. Locate the feature you would like to disable or enable, setting true for enable or false for disable.
4. If adding a feature, follow the format "featureName": true,. The available features are listed under experimentalFeatures in the settings reference.
5. Changes take effect on the next page load; no restart is needed.
6. For more information, see Editing global settings for site-admins

Further resources

• Sourcegraph - Configuration Settings
• Sourcegraph - Site configuration
• Learn more about new experimental features on our Blog or Twitter @sourcegraph