npm outage on 26 October 2026
Major outageAn email when it goes down, and when it’s back.
“View package and auth outage on npmjs.com”
On 26 October, npm's website www.npmjs.com had a major outage affecting package viewing and sign-in, with the incident open for 36 minutes from 05:54 to 06:30 UTC. The status page showed the website component in major outage only from 05:54 to 06:21, when it reported a fix in place and began monitoring, before marking the incident resolved at 06:30.
npm’s own incident page ↗- When
- 05:54–06:30 UTC
- How long
- 36 min
- Incident open on its page
- 05:54–06:30 UTC
- Components affected
- 1
- npm, 30 days before
- 1 other outage
What broke when
From npm’s own status page: when it moved each component into trouble, and back.
At the same time
Started in the hour before or during it
No other well-known service reported a problem that started then.
And 54 lesser-known services. Problems at the same time are a clue, never proof that one caused another.
Timeline
Times in UTC
- Investigating
- www.npmjs.com website: partial outage
- Cause identified
- www.npmjs.com website: degraded performance
- Fix in place, monitoring
- www.npmjs.com website: back to normal
- Resolved
Where this comes from
Stackpulse reads npm’s official status page at status.npmjs.org every minute. The times above are when it reported the problem; the summary is written from its updates and checked against them.
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