ServiceNow
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Update: July 27, 2026 

 

The infrastructure issue has been resolved, and all PDIs are back online. New PDI provisioning has also resumed, with PDIs currently available and little to no wait. 

 

All developers have been given additional time to access their PDIs and back up their work. If you previously received a reclamation notice, the date in that notice no longer applies. You will receive a new email with an updated date before your PDI can be reclaimed. 

 

We appreciate your patience while we worked to restore full PDI availability. 

 

 

 

Starting the evening of July 22, an infrastructure-related issue caused the Developer Site to become unavailable and some personal developer instances (PDIs) to appear offline. The Developer Site is now back online. We are continuing to investigate the impact to PDI availability and actions.

 

CURRENT STATUS

Developer Site: Available
New PDI provisioning: Available
Existing PDIs: Available
Developer action:  Log in to wake your PDI as needed and back up any work you want to preserve

 

WHAT HAPPENED?

On July 22, an infrastructure-related issue affected the Developer Site and some PDIs. The Developer Site was temporarily unavailable but has since been restored.

While we address the remaining issue, new PDIs cannot be created, and provisioning, reclaiming, and waking actions remain paused. Some affected PDIs are currently hibernating and cannot be accessed. If your PDI is affected, you will see a banner on the Developer Site.

 

WILL I LOSE THE DATA STORED ON MY PDI?

We do not expect any data loss as a result of this incident. Affected PDIs are currently hibernating, and the data stored on them is expected to remain available when they come back online. No action is required at this time.

 

I HAVE IMPORTANT DATA ON MY PDI THAT I NEED TO ACCESS. WHAT SHOULD I DO?

If your PDI remains offline, you will need to wait until it is back online to be able to access the data stored on it. No action is required at this time.

 

We recognize this interruption may affect ongoing development work, and we appreciate your patience as we work to resolve the issue.

 

As a reminder, PDIs are intended for learning, experimentation, and development scenarios and do not provide the same performance or reliability as customer instances. Because lost PDI data cannot be recovered, production and demo code should be stored outside of a PDI. We also recommend regularly backing up your PDI work using source control or update sets so it can be transferred or restored if needed.

202 Comments
goruvaganga
Tera Explorer

I am not able to login

Vitória Simões
Tera Contributor

I received an email stating that my PDI will be automatically reclaimed on July 26, 2026, but I cannot back it up because it is offline.

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Pongo
Tera Contributor

Hello,

Do we have an update on roughly when we would get access again?

11sahilkmr
Tera Explorer

This is very disappointing, servicenow is such a huge and public listed company and seeing these errors occur and still so long hours to recover is very bad, 24 hrs. I had to show my project so to get on boarded on a project but due to this I am getting delayed.

Please look into this ASAP.

SivakamiC
Giga Explorer

is it resolved?

glideFather
Tera Patron

@vinayak_koppar @ShaziaN @mariaghazan @SivakamiC @Pongo @11sahilkmr @gagank1567 

 

Guys, you haven't worked at service desk, have you? :)) There's information above that it's related to infrastructure issue, which seems it's something complex. If it was possible to fix it, it would've already been fixed...

 

Also, there is this sentence "We will update this post as more information becomes available."

 

As a workaround, you might enrol to some SN University course that provides a lab and you can have that, it's for a few days only but better than nothing...

 

I just tried this and the study labs are ready as seen for the SNAF:

glideFather_0-1784904037372.png

 

gagank1567
Giga Explorer

Status showing still as Hibernating. Any update?

glideFather
Tera Patron

@Vitória Simões 

 

CURRENT STATUS

Developer Site: Available
New PDI provisioning: Paused
PDI reclaim and wake actions: Paused
Existing PDIs: Some are offline
Developer action: No action is required at this time

ramana98400
Giga Explorer

Any update , when it will works , please let me know.

RayRoulstone
Tera Expert

I would really be nice to see PDI's available as a VM or docker container.