PyPI (Python) outage, 21 August 2024
PyPI Simple Index Timing Out
- Started
- Resolved
- 21 Aug 2024, 20:23 UTC (after 31 min)
- Impact
- Minor
- Affected
- pypi.org - Backends
Last update from PyPI (Python)
**What happened?** PyPI experienced an outage which resulted in serving 500-level responses for certain requests, including requests to a subset of the [Simple Repository API](https://peps.python.org/pep-0503/), from approximately 19:00:00 UTC to 20:15:00 UTC. As a result, some packages were uninstallable during this period. While such outages are not entirely uncommon and generally easy to recover from, this outage was more severe due to PyPI becoming un-deployable as a result of its own outage. **Impact** At its peak, PyPI served errors at approximately 25 responses per second and in total nearly 100K requests during this ~1hr 15m period resulted in an error. This represents approximate...
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