feature flag cleanup dashboard

Here’s a practical feature flag cleanup dashboard concept you can use for planning or implementation.

Purpose

A dashboard to help teams identify stale, unused, risky, or overdue feature flags and remove them safely.

Core goals

• Show which flags are still active
• Highlight flags past their intended expiration date
• Find flags with no recent evaluation or traffic
• Track ownership and cleanup progress
• Reduce technical debt and flag sprawl

Suggested sections

1. Overview cards

• Total flags
• Active flags
• Expired flags
• Flags without owner
• Flags pending cleanup
• Flags disabled but not deleted

2. Flag table

Columns:

• Flag name
• Status: active / inactive / expired / cleanup needed
• Owner
• Environment(s)
• Created date
• Target removal date
• Last evaluated
• % of traffic using flag
• Kill switch? yes/no
• Risk level
• Cleanup action

Useful filters:

• Owner
• Environment
• Expired only
• Unused in last N days
• High-risk flags
• Flags with no owner

3. Cleanup insights

• Flags older than X days
• Flags never toggled
• Flags with no reads in last 30/60/90 days
• Flags deployed only for one release
• Flags tied to completed experiments
• Flags with code references still present

4. Action workflow

For each flag:

• Review
• Mark for removal
• Create ticket
• Assign owner
• Archive
• Delete after approval

5. Trend charts

• Flags created vs removed over time
• Aging distribution of flags
• Cleanup rate by team
• Stale flags by environment

Example cleanup rules

• Flag is older than 90 days and not marked permanent
• Flag has zero evaluations for 30 days
• Release flag has been fully rolled out
• Experiment flag has ended
• No owner assigned for 14 days
• Kill switch must never auto-delete, only review

Nice-to-have features

• GitHub/Jira integration for cleanup tickets
• Code search links showing remaining references
• Alerting for expired flags
• Approval workflow for deletion
• Audit log of all changes
• SLA tracking for owners

Example KPI targets

• Remove 80% of stale flags within 14 days
• Keep average flag age below 60 days
• Reduce unowned flags to zero
• Delete 100% of expired release flags within one sprint

If you want, I can also provide:

1. a wireframe layout,
2. a SQL/schema design, or
3. a React dashboard component example.