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Recent Let's Encrypt Outages and Issues

Follow the recent outages and downtime for Let's Encrypt in the table below.

Start Time

Type

Length

Message

Details

March 17, 2023 05:01 UTC

MAINT

about 4 hours

Network maintenance

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Start Time

March 17, 2023 05:01 UTC

Type MAINT
Affected Components

High Assurance Datacenter 1 - acme-staging-v02.api.letsencrypt.org (Staging)

High Assurance Datacenter 1 - acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org (Production)

High Assurance Datacenter 2 - acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org (Production)

Message

Network maintenance

Details

One of our network infrastructure providers will be performing maintenance. Our API may have reduced success rates, especially for validation, during this maintenance window.

March 08, 2023 23:36 UTC

MAINT

25 minutes

API Database Maintenance

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Start Time

March 08, 2023 23:36 UTC

Type MAINT
Affected Components

High Assurance Datacenter 1 - acme-staging-v02.api.letsencrypt.org (Staging)

High Assurance Datacenter 1 - acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org (Production)

High Assurance Datacenter 1 - {e1,e2,r3,r4}.o.lencr.org

High Assurance Datacenter 1 - ocsp.root-x1.letsencrypt.org

High Assurance Datacenter 1 - ocsp.staging-x1.letsencrypt.org (Staging)

High Assurance Datacenter 2 - acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org (Production)

High Assurance Datacenter 2 - {e1,e2,r3,r4}.o.lencr.org

High Assurance Datacenter 2 - ocsp.root-x1.letsencrypt.org

Message

API Database Maintenance

Details

We're performing database maintenance which may result in some ACME clients receiving timeouts for two periods of up to 10 minutes each in our production and staging environments.

March 03, 2023 17:26 UTC

MAINT

5 minutes

API Database Maintenance

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Start Time

March 03, 2023 17:26 UTC

Type MAINT
Affected Components

High Assurance Datacenter 2 - {e1,e2,r3,r4}.o.lencr.org & ocsp.int-x{3..4}.letsencrypt.org

High Assurance Datacenter 1 - {e1,e2,r3,r4}.o.lencr.org & ocsp.int-x{3..4}.letsencrypt.org

High Assurance Datacenter 2 - ocsp.root-x1.letsencrypt.org

High Assurance Datacenter 1 - acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org (Production)

High Assurance Datacenter 2 - acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org (Production)

High Assurance Datacenter 1 - ocsp.root-x1.letsencrypt.org

Message

API Database Maintenance

Details

We're performing database maintenance which may result in some ACME clients receiving timeouts for up to a 10 minute period.

March 02, 2023 15:31 UTC

WARN

about 3 hours

Staging environment disruption

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Start Time

March 02, 2023 15:31 UTC

Type WARN
Affected Components

High Assurance Datacenter 1 - acme-staging-v02.api.letsencrypt.org (Staging)

High Assurance Datacenter 1 - ocsp.staging-x1.letsencrypt.org (Staging)

Message

Staging environment disruption

Details

Our staging instance is still overloaded, producing a high percentage of HTTP 503 responses

March 01, 2023 07:56 UTC

WARN

about 20 hours

Staging environment disruption

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Start Time

March 01, 2023 07:56 UTC

Type WARN
Affected Components

High Assurance Datacenter 1 - acme-staging-v02.api.letsencrypt.org (Staging)

Message

Staging environment disruption

Details

Our staging environment's performance is degraded due to a database failure. You may experience more restricted rate limits until we resolve the problem, which may take 24-48 hours. Our production environment is not affected.

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Let's Encrypt Components and Services

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Name

Status

Details

Let's Encrypt High Assurance Datacenter 1

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Let's Encrypt High Assurance Datacenter 2

UP See more

Let's Encrypt Public Data Center

UP See more

No outages or status changes in the last 24 hours

Let's Encrypt status, last 24 hours:

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6:00 PM
12:00 AM
6:00 AM
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
12:00 AM
12:00 PM
  • Up: 24 hours

  • Warn: 0 minutes

  • Down: 0 minutes

  • Maintenance: 0 minutes

Let's Encrypt Outage and Status History

We've been monitoring Let's Encrypt outages since November 30, 2015.
Here's the history of service outages we've observed from the Let's Encrypt Status Page:

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About Our Let's Encrypt Status Page Integration

Let's Encrypt is a Security solution that StatusGator has been monitoring since November 2015. Over the past over 7 years, we have collected data on on more than 1,510 outages that affected Let's Encrypt users. When Let's Encrypt publishes downtime on their status page, they do so across 11 components and 3 groups using 4 different statuses: up, warn, down, and maintenance which we use to provide granular uptime metrics and notifications.

More than 400 StatusGator users monitor Let's Encrypt to get notified when it's down, is under maintenance, or has an outage. This makes it one of the most popular security services monitored on our platform. We've sent more than 50,500 notifications to our users about Let's Encrypt incidents, providing transparency and peace of mind. You can get alerts by signing up for a free StatusGator account.

If Let's Encrypt is having system outages or experiencing other critical issues, red down notifications appear on the status page. In most cases, it means that core functions are not working properly, or there is some other serious customer-impacting event underway.

Warn notifications are used when Let's Encrypt is undergoing a non-critical issue like minor service issues, performance degradation, non-core bugs, capacity issues, or problems affecting a small number of users.

Let's Encrypt posts separate notifications for planned maintenance work. StatusGator will notify subscribers when Let's Encrypt enters a pre-planned maintenance window, keeping you up to date.

Let's Encrypt does not publish a feed of proactive maintenance events on their status page at this time. If they do, be sure to let us know and we'll aggregate Let's Encrypt maintenance events into your unified calendar.

When Let's Encrypt posts issues on their status page, we collect the main headline message and include that brief information or overview in notifications to StatusGator subscribers.

When Let's Encrypt has outages or other service-impacting events on their status page, we pull down the detailed informational updates and include them in notifications. These messages often include the current details about how the problem is being mitigated, or when the next update will occur.

Because Let's Encrypt has several components, each with their individual statuses, StatusGator can differentiate the status of each component in our notifications to you. This means, you can filter your status page notifications based on the services, regions, or components you utilize. This is an essential feature for complex services with many components or services spread out across many regions.

Frequently Asked Questions

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According to its status page Let's Encrypt is currently up. You can check the most recent events in the 'Recent Outages and Issues' section above.

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Let's Encrypt status page says the service is up, but I'm having issues. What's wrong?

There may be several reasons for that:

  • An outage that hasn't been communicated yet via the Let's Encrypt status page.
  • Some local issues with a small group of accounts on the service side.
  • Technical issues on your side, or problems with your software or ISP.
  • A misconfiguration on your side.

We recommend contacting Let's Encrypt customer support while checking everything on your side. You can also try Tweeting at them via @letsencrypt on Twitter. Or visit their official status page or website:

Where do you get the official Let's Encrypt status?

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