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SSH into a specific instance of a scaled service

You can now open a shell session to a specific instance of a scaled service. Previously, shell sessions always selected an instance at random.

• In the Render Dashboard, open a service's Shell page and select a specific instance from the Instance dropdown:
  

Selecting an instance in the dashboard shell

• When connecting over SSH, include an instance's 5-character slug in the hostname. Here's an example command:
  
  ssh srv-abc123-d4e5f@ssh.oregon.render.com
  
  In this example, the instance slug is d4e5f. You append this value to the service ID, separated by a hyphen as shown.

You can obtain the slug of a running instance from your service's logs and metrics in the Render Dashboard. You can also open a dashboard shell session to a particular instance directly from these views:

Opening a dashboard shell session from the log explorer

Opening a dashboard shell session from service metrics

Learn more about SSH support in the documentation.