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# Reduce Risk with Feature Flags

Learn how feature flags help developers deploy faster with confidence.

## With DevCycle You Can

#### Minimize Bug Exposure

Safely push new features to a small group of users, minimizing their bug exposure.

#### Safely Test Changes in Production

Quickly share a feature flag safely with your QA team in production for realistic testing using self-targeting.

#### Validate Releases With Your Audience

Increasing the frequency of deployment allows you to test and confirm changes with your audience more often.

#### Instantly Rollback Changes

Should a deployment fail, we make it easy to roll back a feature, diagnose the issue, and swiftly deploy a remedy.

# Change Flags Without the Fear of Taking Down Prod

### Prevent Invalid Inputs

[Variable Schemas](https://docs.devcycle.com/platform/security-and-guardrails/variable-schemas/) act as guardrails to prevent invalid inputs, so product managers, marketers, or other non-developers, can safely make changes without fear of introducing invalid inputs and breaking your code.

### Simple Troubleshooting

[Complete audit logs](https://docs.devcycle.com/platform/security-and-guardrails/audit-log/) allow you to view the full history and context of feature flag updates and changes.

### Empower the Whole Team to Make Changes, Safely

No more games of musical logins. With usage-based pricing, you only pay for what you use. So go ahead, invite the whole team to DevCycle at [no extra cost](/content/pricing/index.html).

# Test Quickly, Deploy Even Faster

### Stay in the Flow

Manage flags with our dashboard or [CLI](https://docs.devcycle.com/cli/) and [VS Code Extension](https://docs.devcycle.com/integrations/vscode-extension/) to eliminate context-switching and work where you feel most comfortable.

### Better QA, Debugging, and Troubleshooting

Capabilities such as [self-targeting](https://docs.devcycle.com/platform/testing-and-qa/self-targeting/) overrides allow you to quickly test, debug, and troubleshoot in any environment.

### Release with Confidence

Reduce reliance on your staging environments and adopt practices like trunk-based development, leading to faster feature delivery and more efficient CI/CD.

# Monitor Your Features

### Fine Tune Your Feature Releases

DevCycle’s gradual rollouts support linear and [multi-step functions](https://docs.devcycle.com/platform/feature-flags/targeting/rollouts#multi-step-rollouts), giving you the maximum control needed to make adjustments.

### Get Notifications When Features Change

Set a date and time for your next feature release so it goes live with your blog post, press release, and other marketing materials.

### Observe a Feature’s Performance

[Feature metrics](https://docs.devcycle.com/platform/experimentation/creating-and-managing-metrics/) make it easy to track and monitor the overall performance of a feature.

## Have a specific use case in mind?

One of our developers would be happy to discuss the details with you.

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