# PyPI (Python Infrastructure): Multiple services unavailable

- Impact (vendor’s label): critical
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2020-03-16 16:20 UTC · Resolved: 2020-03-16 17:26 UTC · Duration: 1.1 h
- Updates: 1
- [Vendor status page: https://status.python.org/incidents/p4tk206vy262](https://status.python.org/incidents/p4tk206vy262)
- [Company: PyPI (Python Infrastructure)](https://rewindex.com/company/pypi.md)

## Part of an outage event

- [Heroku outage, Mar 16, 2020: 8 vendors, 9 incidents](https://rewindex.com/events/2020-03-16-heroku)
- This incident started in the same window without naming Heroku (timing only, not evidence of a link). (timing only, posted −4 min vs the first vendor naming Heroku)

```mermaid
flowchart LR
  root["Heroku<br/>own incident not archived"]:::inferred
  h1["Within an hour<br/>4 vendors, 4 blamed Heroku<br/>RevenueCat, Substack, Bitrise, crates.io"]:::blames
  root --> h1
  h4["1 to 4 hours later<br/>1 vendor, 1 blamed Heroku<br/>RevenueCat"]:::blames
  root --> h4
  me["PyPI (Python Infrastructure) (this incident)<br/>posted −4 min"]:::me
  root -.->|"same window"| me
```

_Detected automatically from incidents that started together and named the same provider; a link means one incident named another vendor, not a confirmed cause._

## Timeline of updates

- **resolved** 2020-03-16 17:26 UTC: This incident has been resolved.

_From the vendor’s published history: only the final update text is available for incidents before Rewindex began polling this page._


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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/company/pypi/incidents/p4tk206vy262 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/company/pypi/incidents/p4tk206vy262.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/companies/pypi/incidents/p4tk206vy262 · Generated 2026-10-20T01:31:33.544Z