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Python Outage History

Every past Python outage tracked by IsDown, with detection times, duration, and resolution details.

There were 112 Python outages since March 2018. The 6 outages from the last 12 months are summarized below, with incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Major February 26, 2026

February 2026: Python Infrastructure Outage

Detected Feb 26, 2026 8:04 PM UTC · Resolved Feb 26, 2026 11:28 PM UTC · Duration about 3 hours

Python experienced a major infrastructure outage lasting 3.4 hours that affected bugs.python.org, us.pycon.org, and python.org (both CDN and backends). The root cause was identified as an erroneous scaling operation that impacted application workloads, and all services were subsequently restored and monitored for full recovery.