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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
peterkvasno
Tera Contributor

Reporting back:

 

Release instance worked and I was able to request Australia instance and also get the instance

 

I'm not sure what is the chance that you also will get a fresh instance soon after requesting, hard to tell if me releasing it "freed up" a fresh one or not

CarstenK
Tera Explorer

Hi, my PDI is offline. Are there any maintenance activities or issues currently? Thank you! 

 

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John Caruso
Mega Guru

My PDI still remains offline. I received an email today (Aug 6th) showing: Your Personal Developer Instance (PDI) is scheduled for automatic reclamation on August 9, 2026.

The red header now says "Instance Offline: Recovery may take long. You can wait, or release it now to request a new one." and no longer links to this thread, and I see the last update for this thread shows:

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. 

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Does this mean for anyone like me whose instance remains offline, that we're out of luck and our only option is to release it and request a new one?

Could the thread creator please confirm whether this is our only option now?

"all PDIs are back online" is simply false - mine has never been online since this incident began.

James29
Tera Contributor

Mine did come back online. I've been using it a lot for the past week. It's down again now though. 
Ah, the joys of PDIs

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cprashantte
Giga Contributor

PDI's  are online now. Also new users can also avail PDI.

AndrewG81765973
Tera Explorer

I released mine yesterday and it took about 7 hours to get another one.  This morning when attempting to log in I've noticed: 1) 'manage my instance' button is greyed out and 2) when I click the URL to access my PDI and get logged in automatically, the login form is present with a 'the password you entered is incorrect' message.  Entering the admin login credentials sent when the PDI was provisioned produce the same error message.  Things are still not quite working as expected

badeshekarr
Giga Explorer

PDI offline for 5 days - need advice

Hi everyone,

My ServiceNow PDI has been offline for 5 days.

The Manage Instance page shows:

Instance Offline: Recovery may take long. You can wait, or release it now to request a new one.

When I open the instance, I get HTTP 500.

I have tried refreshing the instance and using Incognito mode, but the issue is still the same.

My PDI is dev365842 and the version is Zurich.

Has anyone experienced this issue recently? Has your PDI recovered? Should I continue waiting or release the instance and request a new one?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thank you.

ShaziaN
Tera Contributor

Hey, my PDI gone offline again, i cant even woke it up, please help me restore my PDI "dev382494".  I used it yesterday and it showing offline from 3 days, Please help me. @ServiceNow  

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amjanand
Tera Contributor

HI SN Team,
When i PDI get UP, i am daily using my PDI , and it show offline for 10 days more, now PDI shows offline.
please guide me.
please UP my PDI with my work. 

CarstenK
Tera Explorer

Hi Team, 

 

my PDI appears offline:

 

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Are there any maintenance activities?

 

Thanks,
Carsten