- Level
- confirmed
- Worst impact
- Partial outage
- Components
- pypi.org - Backends
- Down Index
- 24of 100
What to do
Check whether you use PyPI pypi.org - Backends. Check your stack
Paste a package.json, lockfile, Terraform or a list of domains at down.guide/stack to see every provider you depend on.Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 16m it lasted.
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Updates from PyPI 4
- investigating
We're investigating elevated error rates for pypi.org
provider
- identified
We've identified an issue with database contention arising from locking.
provider
- monitoring
The locking process has been terminated and we're monitoring as things recover.
provider
- resolved
This incident is resolved. We're going to do some further investigation to understand what led to the lock contention.
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Corrections
None so far.
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Questions about DWN-7810123fe3
Is PyPI still down?
No, this incident was resolved 2025-04-24 12:18 UTC. For PyPI's live state, see https://down.guide/pypi.
How long did it last?
16m, from 2025-04-24 12:02 UTC to 2025-04-24 12:18 UTC, by the times PyPI posted.
What was affected?
PyPI named pypi.org - Backends.
What caused it?
PyPI hasn't published a root cause. If it does, it shows here.
Where does this come from?
PyPI's official status page, https://status.python.org, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.