Python Package Index had 7 outages in the last 2 years totaling 18h 1m of downtime — averaging 0.3 incidents per month.
There were 7 Python Package Index outages since November 12, 2025 totaling 18h 1m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.
infrastructure maintenance is having a larger impact on availability of PyPI's backends than anticipated. we are working to stabilize.
the maintenance is complete and everything has stabilized
Multiple python.org services were impacted by expiration of internal TLS certificates caused by use of APIs deprecated by a recent library update. We have resolved the issue and are monitoring as services come back online after renewing their internal certificates.
All services are restored.
We are currently investigating this issue.
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
We have resolved the issue and are monitoring for changes.
This incident has been resolved.
We are currently investigating this issue.
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
This incident has been resolved.
We are investigating why PyPI uploads are failing.
We identified a database lock causing contention and stopped all upload backends to release all locks and are monitoring for recovery.
This incident has been resolved.
We are currently observing a slowdown in background requests processing for events on PyPI.org This could lead to stale web pages and API responses as the events system is not able to purge the caches. Our team is continuing to investigate.
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
This incident has been resolved.