---
title: Retire a sandbox
description: Retire sandboxes that are outdated or no longer needed to make room for new Developer Sandboxes in your instance.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/application-development/developer-sandboxes/retire-sandboxes.html
release: australia
product: Developer Sandboxes
classification: developer-sandboxes
topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
reading_time_minutes: 1
breadcrumb: [Administering, Developer Sandboxes, Developing your application, Building applications]
---

# Retire a sandbox

Retire sandboxes that are outdated or no longer needed to make room for new Developer Sandboxes in your instance.

## Before you begin

Save your work, for example commit it to source control or export update sets.

Role required: admin or sandbox\_manager

## About this task

You should manually retire sandboxes when your work is complete to maintain a healthy development lifecycle.

**Warning:** Because sandboxes are retired automatically after an upgrade or clone, ensure any work that you want to keep is preserved before upgrading or cloning.

-   For upgrades, you can restore work from the remote update sets that Developer Sandboxes automatically created from prior sandboxes.
-   For clones, you must manually save and restore all work in sandboxes.
-   Any custom table configuration changes or fixes must be reapplied after an upgrade. Contact Now Support to open a case.

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **All** > **Sandbox Management** > **Sandbox Management Home**.

2.  Select the more options icon \[Omitted image "sn-studio-more-options-icon.png"\]in the Developer Sandboxes dashboard, and then select **Retire sandbox**.

    \[Omitted image "dev-sbx-retire-home-2.png"\] Alt text: Select to Retire sandbox

3.  Confirm the retirement by selecting **Retire**.


## Result

After it's retired, the sandbox is no longer available for use. However, you can allocate new sandboxes as needed. For more information, see [Allocate a sandbox](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-development/developer-sandboxes/allocating-sandboxes.md).