diff --git a/test/selfhost-digitalocean-filesystem-test.js b/test/selfhost-digitalocean-filesystem-test.js
index 4ca88e0..f4c5297 100644
--- a/test/selfhost-digitalocean-filesystem-test.js
+++ b/test/selfhost-digitalocean-filesystem-test.js
@@ -96,7 +96,8 @@ describe('Selfhost DigitalOcean with filesystem backend', function () {
         digitalocean.create('tselfhost-filesystem-test', DO_IMAGE_SLUG, DO_SSH_KEY, DO_REGION, DO_TYPE, '', function (error, result) {
             if (error) return done(error);
 
-            console.log('New instance created with id', result.id);
+            instanceId = result.id;
+            console.log('New instance created with id', instanceId);
 
             var ip = null;