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Status page says
Operational since Oct 19
Last 90 days
9 incidents, 1 major or critical
Rewrites caught
None so far
Next deprecation
None announced
npm incidents per day, last 90 days

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How npm reports incidents

Compared with the 152 vendors that have enough incidents to compare. Each tick is one vendor; lower is better on every line.

Provisional. Built nightly from every archived version of each incident, last on Oct 19. Compare all vendors

First posted only after it was over
0% 0 of the 50 incidents we have in full detail

The first update already said resolved. Typical vendor: 6%.

npm: lower than most vendors.

Time to resolve
2 h 18 min median; 9 in 10 within 4 h 46 min

From the vendor’s own start and resolve times, last 365 days. Typical vendor: 2 h.

npm: around the middle.

Major or critical incidents
0.3 a month 4 in the last 365 days

Impact as the vendor labels it. Typical vendor: 1.2 a month.

npm: lower than most vendors.

Rewrites caught
None so far

Counts, not a rate: 10-minute tracking began Oct 17, so there are too few events to compare yet.

Dependencies

What npm relies on and who relies on npm, as observed in status-page incidents: who they blame, where they say they run, and who fails at the same time. Observed, not verified.

npm depends on

ProviderEvidenceSignal
AWS (us-east-1)blamed in 3 incidents; named as hosting in 1; together in 3 outage events

“…lishing and installation issues were related to upstream network connectivity issues with AWS.…” incident

Strong
Google Cloudblamed in 1 incident; together in 2 outage events

“…npm Enterprise partial outage due to Google Compute Engine This incident has been resolved.…” incident

Likely
GitHubintegration affected in 1

“…s during npm install. Errors observed include 429 Too Many Requests and 403 Forbidden for GitHub Actions.…” incident

Weak

Runs in (named in its incidents): AWS us-east-1 (1).

Outage events: AWS us-west-2, Sep 3 (timing), Microsoft Azure west us, Jul 23 (timing), Cloudflare, Dec 5, 2025 (timing), AWS us-east-1, Oct 20, 2025 (timing), Google Cloud, Jun 12, 2025 (timing), Cloudflare, Oct 30, 2023 (timing), Cloudflare, Jun 21, 2022 (timing), Cloudflare, Dec 16, 2021 (timing) and 3 more.

Strong: same company, or blamed in two separate outages. Likely: blamed once, or named as hosting and failing together. Weak: listed as a subprocessor, integration-only, or failing together repeatedly without being named.

Changes and edits

Incidents npm rewrote or removed, and notable changes to the pages we watch.

Struck in red is what npm removed. Blue is what they added.

Friday, July 24

1 incident change

Monday, April 27

1 incident change

Wednesday, March 25

1 incident change

Friday, December 5, 2025

1 incident change

Thursday, June 12, 2025

1 incident change

Saturday, April 5, 2025

1 incident change

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

1 incident change

Tuesday, June 11, 2024

1 incident change

Monday, June 3, 2024

1 incident change

Full npm change history

Pricing and pages we watch

No pricing, trust or legal pages tracked for npm.

Each change links to its diff: the changed passages with a few words of context, never a full copy of the page.

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Incidents

Latest 100 of 383 incidents since Nov 3, 2014, 71 of them major or critical. Maintenance is left out.

Per year, major and critical in amber:

2014: 4 incidents, 0 major or critical; 2015: 26 incidents, 2 major or critical; 2016: 50 incidents, 1 major or critical; 2017: 30 incidents, 0 major or critical; 2018: 73 incidents, 12 major or critical; 2019: 27 incidents, 8 major or critical; 2020: 31 incidents, 14 major or critical; 2021: 19 incidents, 9 major or critical; 2022: 29 incidents, 5 major or critical; 2023: 45 incidents, 11 major or critical; 2024: 12 incidents, 3 major or critical; 2025: 14 incidents, 3 major or critical; 2026: 23 incidents, 3 major or critical

Wednesday, October 14

1 incident

Sunday, September 27

1 incident

Friday, September 4

1 incident

Thursday, September 3

1 incident

Thursday, July 30

1 incident

Friday, July 24

1 incident, 1 major or critical

Thursday, July 23

1 incident

Friday, June 12

1 incident

Tuesday, April 28

1 incident

Monday, April 27

1 incident, 1 major or critical

Wednesday, April 1

1 incident

Wednesday, March 25

1 incident, 1 major or critical

Thursday, March 5

1 incident

Wednesday, February 25

1 incident

Tuesday, February 17

1 incident

Thursday, January 29

1 incident

Friday, December 5, 2025

1 incident, 1 major or critical

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

1 incident

Thursday, November 6, 2025

1 incident

Friday, October 3, 2025

1 incident

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

1 incident

Thursday, June 12, 2025

2 incidents, 1 major or critical

Friday, April 11, 2025

1 incident

Saturday, April 5, 2025

1 incident, 1 major or critical

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

1 incident

Wednesday, January 8, 2025

1 incident

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

1 incident, 1 major or critical

Saturday, November 16, 2024

1 incident

Thursday, October 10, 2024

1 incident

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

1 incident

Friday, August 9, 2024

1 incident

Thursday, June 20, 2024

1 incident

Monday, June 17, 2024

1 incident

Tuesday, June 11, 2024

1 incident, 1 major or critical

Monday, June 3, 2024

1 incident, 1 major or critical

Friday, May 3, 2024

1 incident

Tuesday, April 9, 2024

1 incident

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

1 incident

Friday, December 15, 2023

1 incident

Friday, December 8, 2023

1 incident, 1 major or critical

Monday, November 27, 2023

1 incident

Thursday, November 16, 2023

1 incident

Tuesday, November 7, 2023

1 incident

Monday, October 30, 2023

1 incident, 1 major or critical

Saturday, October 14, 2023

1 incident

Friday, September 22, 2023

1 incident, 1 major or critical

Tuesday, August 22, 2023

1 incident

Thursday, August 3, 2023

1 incident

Friday, July 14, 2023

1 incident

Wednesday, June 21, 2023

2 incidents

Tuesday, June 20, 2023

1 incident

Friday, June 9, 2023

1 incident

Thursday, June 8, 2023

1 incident, 1 major or critical

Monday, May 15, 2023

1 incident, 1 major or critical

Tuesday, May 9, 2023

1 incident

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

1 incident

Monday, April 24, 2023

1 incident, 1 major or critical

Thursday, March 30, 2023

1 incident

Thursday, March 23, 2023

1 incident

Thursday, March 16, 2023

1 incident

Tuesday, March 14, 2023

1 incident

Monday, March 13, 2023

1 incident, 1 major or critical

Friday, March 10, 2023

1 incident

Thursday, March 2, 2023

1 incident

Monday, February 27, 2023

1 incident, 1 major or critical

Friday, February 3, 2023

2 incidents

Monday, January 30, 2023

1 incident

Friday, January 27, 2023

1 incident

Tuesday, January 24, 2023

1 incident

Tuesday, January 17, 2023

1 incident

Monday, January 16, 2023

1 incident

Thursday, January 12, 2023

1 incident

Monday, January 9, 2023

1 incident

Sunday, January 8, 2023

1 incident

Tuesday, January 3, 2023

1 incident

Thursday, December 29, 2022

1 incident

Tuesday, December 20, 2022

1 incident

Friday, December 16, 2022

1 incident, 1 major or critical

Wednesday, October 26, 2022

1 incident

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

2 incidents

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