Data Governance - CDN

Addressing global data handling and processing trends via Data Governance feature. Customers can control the geographic location where their config JSONs get published to.

CDN - Data Centers

To ensure high availability and low response times all around the globe, ConfigCat provides data centers at multiple global locations. All of the data centers have multiple CDN nodes to guarantee proper redundancy.

ConfigCat Data Center locations

ConfigCat uses Cloudflare Edge Cache Network to deliver the configuration JSONs to the SDKs. Read more about Cloudflare data centers here.

How to govern the data?

Currently available geographical areas:

Global [Default]

Provides geo-location based load balancing on all nodes around the globe to ensure the lowest response times.

EU Only

Compliant with GDPR. This way your data will never leave the EU.

Set preferences on the Dashboard

Open Data Governance page and follow the steps to set preferences.

Only team members with Organization Admin role can access Data Governance preferences.

Set up the ConfigCat SDK in your application code

Make sure the dataGovernance parameter is passed to the ConfigCat SDK in your application code when it is being initialized.

The dataGovernance parameter value must be in sync with the selected option on the Dashboard.

Troubleshooting

What if I forgot to pass the dataGovernance parameter?

The ConfigCat backend will take the Dashboard preference as primary. Having EU Only selected on the Dashboard but forgot to pass the proper dataGovernance parameter to the SDK. In this case your config JSONs will only published to the EU CDN nodes. And every config JSON download made from your application to any node outside the EU, the request will be redirected automatically to the EU CDN. Recommended to deploy a fix with the correct dataGovernance param, since response times will be significantly longer.

Warning: Your dataGovernance parameter at ConfigCatClient initialization is not in sync with your preferences...

You worry do not. Your feature flags are served. See above example.