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Overwrite web layer from ArcGIS Pro stuck on "Uploading Service Definition"

JulianMcCoy

I'm trying to overwrite one of my hosted feature layers with a layer from ArcGIS Pro, as I've done many times in the past. It gets stuck on "Uploading Service Definition".

Version is 3.0 (I know I should update it, but it was able to do this yesterday. I have to call IT every time I update and it's a whole thing, so I hang on to the versions that work for me)

I have a Standard license and I'm signed in everywhere.

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HeatherWidlund

From Esri support:

The following status information is available for this Incident: INC-005042 - Layers are slow to publish from ArcGIS Pro to ArcGIS Online and stall on 'Uploading service definition'.

We have confirmed the incident and are investigating.

HeatherWidlund

Random failures now from Task Scheduler, and failure from Pro. I submitted a ticket and I think everyone should do that.

ITAdmin1

I just went searching for a solution to this and happened upon this active post. I'm also stuck on "Uploading service definition" today.

KathleenBallew

My coworker and I are both having this same issue today. Have tried publishing several different layers and they all get stuck.

HeatherWidlund

I had 2 scripts that overwrite services fail and 2 succeed so not sure. When I reran manually, 1 failed again. I logged into Pro, closed it again and then the 2 that failed succeeded. Also updated to 3.7 yesterday.

FourquetDanielVDOT

Same problem, also 5/20/26. Maybe a server problem?

AltoonaWater

Popping in to this old thread, I am now having this issue 5/20/2026 after updating to Pro 3.7

lmott

I have experienced this and am once again today. I have to restore it from deleted and keep trying.

DRicotta

Adding myself, same problem.

KristyCline

Just adding myself as another Esri user experiencing these issues with an automated process that was working fine for years, but now hangs on 'Uploading Service Definition'. The layer it gets hung up on doesn't seem to be consistent.

Tim_Rodaway

Has anyone managed to get to the bottom of this? We've had it occuring intermittently for a good few months now. We're overwriting ~20 layers nightly, and often finding it randomly hangs on one of the layers (different ones). We're using a Python script and it's the overwrite function that it fails on specifically. I've seen it happen once in ArcGIS Pro too, but didn't have the diagnostic monitor open for it.

I was thinking we were alone with it, so likely an internal network issue, so was putting off logging a report, but it sounds like it's something on Esri's end given others are facing it too.

HeatherWidlund

Yes, this happened to me 3/26/24. It was with a manual overwrite from Pro.

Data point: My overnight overwrite scripts still seem to be working.

JLyon

anyone have issues now with a failure to publish layer, overwriting existing layer, and in doing so deletes the layer in your content? Has now happened 2x in the last 24 hrs.

HeatherWidlund

I would encourage everyone to submit support tickets with your timestamps. Maybe there is a set of servers that is having issues and this might help narrow it down.

JLyon

keeping with the same issue taking 30 min to upload definitions, but today it failed to load and deleted the layer on the AGOL server, now the reloading for the layer has been spinning "upload service definition" for the past hour now. This is a new issue for most of us so would ne nice hear from ESRI on this issue.

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AshleyHayes2

Just wanted add myself as another person experiencing this issue. I have overwritten the same 5 hosted features layers every month for years (across many versions of Pro) and have never had an issue. Today it is stuck on "Uploading service definition".

Kbray_gis_

Yeah it is a bit odd, for the last week 4 out of 20 layers would hang on the overwrite, sometimes a different layer each day, but today they all worked 😕 the error in our logs was returning an internal server error 500? but looking into that didn't glean to much information

HeatherWidlund

My layer eventually failed, but did not delete the associated feature layer, so there's that. When I worked with tech support, we tried again and it worked. He seemed to think it had to do with some weird behavior on the host server. Scary.

JLyon

seeing this issue more and more, data overwriting that was quick and easy is now hanging most times.

HeatherWidlund

I lost a hosted feature layer yesterday (downstream reconfiguration is a nightmare) and now I have a completely different one hanging on Updating Service Definition. I'm afraid to interrupt it.

I checked the ArcGIS Health dashboard and it's showing all green but I'm wondering if something is going on.

Kbray_gis_

I would be keen to see the outcome of this, what I've noticed lately and within the new version of Pro, it seems to hang on overwriting processes.

We have a scripted overnight update process that is updating layers in AGOL, which is based on overwriting the hosted feature services.

Lately it's been hanging on certain feature services and the script doesn't error out or finish just hangs, but when I go and run the script again in the morning, it will overwrite the layer without issue.

This process up until recently always worked without dramas, but lately it's been hanging.

jcarlson

In general, unless you're making some major changes to the schema, you should avoid overwriting your hosted layers. I have had the "overwrite" process fail on my many times, including getting stuck where yours is, and occasionally corrupting the hosted layer in the process. If all you need to do is update the data within the layer, consider doing a truncate/append process instead.

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