Account members

Overview

This category introduces the concept of account members in LaunchDarkly and shows you how to use the Members list.

LaunchDarkly supports user object management with OAuth, SAML, and SCIM. To learn more, read Enabling single sign-on.

About members in LaunchDarkly

Account members are people who work at your organization or have access rights to your organization’s LaunchDarkly environment for another reason, such as contractors or part-time employees.

Use the Members list to invite new account members to LaunchDarkly, remove old account members, or manage access controls for account members by setting roles.

To access the Members list, click the gear icon in the left sidenav to view Organization settings. Then choose Members from the left sidenav.

You can search for a specific member using the search bar. You can also filter members by Team, Role, or Last seen using the filters at the top of the “Members” list:

In addition to filtering, you can also sort by the “Name” column.

The “Last seen” column displays how long it has been since members logged in to your LaunchDarkly account. Possible “Last seen” statuses include:

• N minutes/hours/days/months/years ago: The amount of time since a member last logged in. If a member logged in using the API, the status also displays the name of the personal access token they used.
• Never: The member has never logged in.

To learn more about teams in LaunchDarkly, read Teams. To learn more about roles, read About member roles, below.

Add members to LaunchDarkly

Use the Members list to access a list of all the members in your organization with LaunchDarkly access.

From there, you can invite new account members to LaunchDarkly, remove old account members, or manage access controls for account members by setting roles. To modify an existing member’s information, click their name.

To add new members:

1. Click the gear icon in the left sidenav to view Organization settings.

2. Click Members. The Members list appears.

3. Click Invite members.

4. Enter one or more email addresses. If you are inviting multiple members, separate email addresses with a comma or new line.

5. Choose an initial Member role from the dropdown.

6. (Optional) Select teams to add these members to.

   

7. Click Invite members.

New members now receive an email inviting them to your LaunchDarkly account. You can resend the invitation or manage a member’s roles and team membership by clicking on the member’s name in the Members list.

Accept pending requests

You can also allow members of your organization to find and request to join your LaunchDarkly account themselves. To learn how, read Organization access settings.

When a member of your organization requests to join your LaunchDarkly account, the account Owner and any Admins receive the request in an email, and the pending request is available for approval on the Members page.

To accept a pending request:

1. Click the gear icon in the left sidenav to view Organization settings.
2. Click Members. The Members list appears.
3. Click Pending requests. The “Manage pending requests” dialog appears.
4. Check the checkbox next to the members you wish to add to your LaunchDarkly account.
5. In the “Role” column, select the built-in or custom role that each member should have.
6. In the “Request status” column, click Accept.

To reject a request from a prospective member, click Decline.

Export a list of account members

You can export a list of your account members, including their IDs, email addresses, first and last names, built-in roles, and custom roles, to a CSV file.

Here’s how:

1. Click the gear icon in the left sidenav to view Organization settings.
2. Click Members. The Members list appears.
3. (Optional) Filter by Team, Role, or Last seen if you want to export a subset of your account members.
4. Click Export CSV. A CSV file of account members downloads to your machine.

About member roles

You can assign different roles to LaunchDarkly account members. There are four different built-in roles in LaunchDarkly: Reader, Writer, Admin, and Owner. To learn more, read Manage account member roles and Built-in roles.

Customers on select plans can give account members additional, custom roles to more tightly define the actions members can and can’t take in your LaunchDarkly account. You can give an account member a custom role in two ways: by giving a custom role to the member, or by giving a custom role to a team and adding the member to that team.

To learn more, read Custom roles and Manage account member roles.

Enable multi-factor authentication

For additional security, you can require multi-factor authentication (MFA) for your account. When MFA is enabled, account members won’t be able to log in to LaunchDarkly without verifying their identity with a second method.

We strongly recommend that all LaunchDarkly members enable MFA for their individual accounts, and that administrators enforce MFA for their entire organization. In the event of a credential leak or device theft, MFA can prevent malicious third parties from accessing a LaunchDarkly account they should not be able to access.

To learn more, read Multi-factor authentication.

Remove members from LaunchDarkly

To remove a member from your account:

1. Click the gear icon in the left sidenav to view Organization settings.
2. Click Members. The Members list appears.
3. Find the member in the list of account members.
4. Click the member’s name.
5. Navigate to the Settings tab for that member.
6. Click Delete member.

Removing a member from your account has the following consequences:

• They are removed from being a flag maintainer.
• Their personal access tokens are deactivated. Any service tokens that they created remain active.