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PyPI outage: PyPI workers currently paused

PyPI reported this major-impact incident on its official status page on Mar 12, 2024, 20:00 UTC. It was resolved after 41 min.

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Mar 12, 2024, 20:00 UTC
started
Mar 12, 2024, 20:41 UTC
resolved
41 min
duration
Major
impact

Affected components

  • pypi.org - General
  1. resolvedMar 12, 2024, 20:41 UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

  2. monitoringMar 12, 2024, 20:19 UTC

    Workers have been restarted and are clearing backlog of enqueued tasks.

  3. identifiedMar 12, 2024, 20:00 UTC

    A maintenance event requires us to pause our workers, which will delay cache purges and email delivery. We anticipate this will persist for up to 30 minutes.

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 Mar 12, 2024: PyPI workers currently paused · APIStatus.watch