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PyPI incident: Intermittent outages in PyPI backends.

PyPI reported this minor-impact incident on its official status page on Aug 17, 2023, 15:00 UTC. It was resolved after 8 min.

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Aug 17, 2023, 15:00 UTC
started
Aug 17, 2023, 15:08 UTC
resolved
8 min
duration
Minor
impact

Affected components

  • pypi.org - Backends

Timeline

updates from PyPI's status page ↗
  1. resolvedAug 17, 2023, 15:08 UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

  2. monitoringAug 17, 2023, 15:05 UTC

    The migration has been completed and we are monitoring to ensure stability.

  3. identifiedAug 17, 2023, 15:00 UTC

    A slow migration PyPI admins are attempting to apply is causing database contention leading to intermittent outages in the PyPI backends. We are working on mitigating the impact to end users.

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

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PyPI incident on Aug 17, 2023: Intermittent outages in PyPI backends. · APIStatus.watch