Is Let's Encrypt down?

Let's Encrypt current status is clear.

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Recent Let's Encrypt Outages and Issues

  • Apr 262024
    Staging is currently down, as of 17:08Z. We're investigating the outage.
  • Feb 82024
    We're performing emergency infrastructure maintenance which is causing several brief (up to 90 second) service disruptions over an approximately 15-minute period. The maintenance will be completed shortly.
  • Nov 132023
    A deployment on 9 November at 17:29 UTC incorrectly enabled the shortened chain of trust for certificates issued by our R3 intermediate, as described here:https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/shortening-the-lets-encrypt-chain-of-trust/201580This early change was a mistake, and is in the process of being rolled back.
  • Jul 272023

    Lasted about 2 hours

    We've experienced a minor hardware failure in our staging environment, and are working to recover its services. Production services are not affected.

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About Let's Encrypt

Let's Encrypt is a free and automated certificate authority that enables website owners to secure their websites with TLS certificates. This allows for secure communication between websites and visitors, protecting sensitive data and increasing trust in online interactions.

Recent Let's Encrypt Outage and Status History

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There have been no outages for Let's Encrypt in the past 90 days.

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