PyPI (Python) outage, 26 February 2026
Python Infrastructure Outage
- Started
- Resolved
- 26 Feb 2026, 23:26 UTC (after 2 h 46 min)
- Impact
- Critical
- Affected
- python.org - CDN, python.org - Backends, python.org - Downloads Backends, bugs.python.org, us.pycon.org
Last update from PyPI (Python)
The incident has been resolved. ## Incident Report: Cluster-wide service outage **Duration**: ~36 minutes \(20:04-20:40 UTC\) **Impact**: Some PSF-hosted services were unavailable, including [python.org](http://python.org), [us.pycon.org](http://us.pycon.org), PyPI stats, [bugs.python.org](http://bugs.python.org), and related services. What was unaffected was our other cluster that manages [PyPI.org](http://PyPI.org) among other services related to PyPI. **Root Cause**: During local development of kubernetes workloads locally there was an incorrect context switch to one of our production clusters. The scale-down commands ran against the production cluster instead of the local environm...
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