- Level
- confirmed
- Worst impact
- Degraded
- Components
- pypi.org - Backends
- Down Index
- 15of 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 18m it lasted.
Anything that failed between 2026-01-07 22:42 UTC and 2026-01-07 23:00 UTC may need a replay.Subscribe to PyPI's feed to hear about the next one first. RSS feed
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Updates from PyPI 3
- investigating
We are investigating why PyPI uploads are failing.
provider
- monitoring
We identified a database lock causing contention and stopped all upload backends to release all locks and are monitoring for recovery.
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- resolved
This incident has been resolved.
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Corrections
None so far.
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Questions about DWN-f1a0075dab
Is PyPI still down?
No, this incident was resolved 2026-01-07 23:00 UTC. For PyPI's live state, see https://down.guide/pypi.
How long did it last?
18m, from 2026-01-07 22:42 UTC to 2026-01-07 23:00 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.