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Outage in Let's Encrypt

API Degraded Performance

Resolved Minor
June 18, 2026 - Started about 1 month ago - Lasted 14 days

Incident Report

Summary AI Generated

Let's Encrypt's production ACME API (acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org) experienced degraded performance for approximately 12.7 hours, causing clients to receive 400 and 500 error responses during certificate issuance. The root cause was a networking issue between Let's Encrypt's two high-assurance data centers, which was escalated to their upstream ISP for investigation. Stabilization measures were applied early in the incident while the underlying network issue continued to be investigated.

Let's Encrypt's production API is experiencing degraded performance. Some clients may encounter 400 and 500 error responses. Most clients are still succeeding.

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Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )
about 1 month ago - at 06/18/2026 04:04PM

Let's Encrypt's production API is experiencing degraded performance. Some clients may encounter 400 and 500 error responses. Most clients are still succeeding.

about 1 month ago - at 06/18/2026 04:35PM

We re-routed traffic to bring success rates back to normal after an upstream network event disrupted traffic between two datacenters.

about 1 month ago - at 06/19/2026 04:45AM

We're operating normally, but with reduced redundancy. We continue to work with our upstream ISP to identify and resolve the issue.

28 days ago - at 07/02/2026 06:05PM

Starting shortly, we will be performing maintenance on networking equipment in High Assurance Datacenter 1. Some clients may experience errors while traffic shifting occurs.

28 days ago - at 07/02/2026 08:08PM

27 days ago - at 07/02/2026 10:18PM

We're receiving reports of increased timeouts to our API following a swap of our active datacenters. We are investigating and reverting that change.

27 days ago - at 07/02/2026 10:52PM

API traffic has been swapped back between datacenters.

27 days ago - at 07/02/2026 11:15PM

After monitoring we have confirmed our API is operational.

27 days ago - at 07/03/2026 01:20AM

We're noticing elevated 503s and slow responses. Investigating.

Latest Let's Encrypt outages

API Degraded Performance - about 2 months ago
Production API Disruption - 8 months ago
High API Latency - 8 months ago
Production API Disruption - 10 months ago

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