Next Experience Developer (NED) Tools release notes

  • Release version: Zurich
  • Updated July 31, 2025
  • 1 minute to read

    • The ServiceNow® Next Experience Developer Tools application enables you to create the components to track and enhance page performance and improve overall developer productivity. NED Tools was enhanced and updated in the Zurich release.

    Next Experience Developer (NED) Tools highlights for the Zurich release

    • View traces as a full-screen waterfall with an enriched root span list that has more actionable metadata.
    • Access cache buster details to view how service workers impact page performance.

    See Next Experience Developer Tools for more information.

    UI changes

    Traces tab in the Next Experience Inspector
    The following UI changes have been made to the Traces tab:
    • The Traces tab displays a full-screen waterfall view for trace inspection and an enriched root span list with more actionable metadata.
    • Locate traces by the name, IDs, or any other metadata directly from the root span list.
    • Filter traces by the minimum durations, span count, or source to view relevant traces only.
    • Sort traces by the duration, span count, or start time.
    • View high priority traces first by toggling between ascending or descending order.

    Changed in this release

    Service Workers tab in the Next Experience Inspector
    The Service Workers tab displays cache buster details for viewing how service workers impact page performance.

    Activation information

    Install Next Experience Developer Tools from the Google Chrome Web Store.

    Browser requirements

    Next Experience Developer Tools requires Google Chrome.