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PyPI outage: PyPI Elevated Error Rates

PyPI reported this major-impact incident on its official status page on Apr 24, 2025, 12:02 UTC. It was resolved after 16 min.

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Apr 24, 2025, 12:02 UTC
started
Apr 24, 2025, 12:18 UTC
resolved
16 min
duration
Major
impact

Affected components

  • pypi.org - Backends
  1. resolvedApr 24, 2025, 12:18 UTC

    This incident is resolved. We're going to do some further investigation to understand what led to the lock contention.

  2. monitoringApr 24, 2025, 12:09 UTC

    The locking process has been terminated and we're monitoring as things recover.

  3. identifiedApr 24, 2025, 12:09 UTC

    We've identified an issue with database contention arising from locking.

  4. investigatingApr 24, 2025, 12:02 UTC

    We're investigating elevated error rates for pypi.org

What APIStatus.watch saw

Our 5-minute checks didn't record a change in PyPI's overall status around this incident. Smaller or regional incidents often leave a provider's overall status green.

How often does PyPI have incidents?

PyPI reported 3 incidents in the last 90 days, 1 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 6h 3m. See PyPI's uptime and incident history

PyPI outage on Apr 24, 2025: PyPI Elevated Error Rates · APIStatus.watch