Existing script/method to reliably determine if instance is Production

[paulmorris]

I'm looking for a way to determine if an instance is Production.

I noticed there is a system property, glide.installation.production

However, this is set to true on every instance!

On HI, the instance in question is listed correctly as being Non-Production.

Is there a reliable, configuration agnostic way to tell from within the instance if it is Production or not?

[paulmorris · Accepted solution]

GlideUtil.isProductionInstance()

However this is not available in Scoped Code.

[Daniel Oderbolz]

... Which in turn means that Pauls issue is not fixed with the accepted solution.
(I can see this here as well on a dev instance).

[JeffPatt · Accepted solution]

As Dominic and Daniel have mentioned, the accepted solution is not correct at all.

For my use case I ended up setting a new System Property to store the name of the Production instance and a function in an open-access global scope Script Includes that performs an equality check against instance_name.

It's not OOTB, but has advantages in that it doesn't modify existing properties, and works.

[paulmorris]

This notification just came up.
Must have been a false positive. The method doesn't do what it says on the tin.

[Luuk Vonk]

Please check the "sn_appclient.instance_type" system property for this information.

[JeffPatt]

Just checked this, it's accurate now but has been incorrect for years (this is my dev instance).