Activating experimental features
Experimental features fall into two groups based on how they are activated or deactivated:- Those that are activated at launch with a command-line flag or environment variable
- Those that are activated with the
/experimental-featuresAPI route.
Activating experimental features at launch
Some experimental features can be activated at launch, for example with a command-line flag:--experimental. Environment variables for experimental features are always prefixed with MEILI_EXPERIMENTAL.
Activating or deactivating experimental features this way requires you to relaunch Meilisearch.
Activating experimental features during runtime
Some experimental features can be activated via an HTTP call using the/experimental-features API route: