MongoDB Atlas incident: Impaired Cluster Operations due to Lets Encrypt Outage

Affected components

• MongoDB Atlas for Government
• MongoDB Cloud

1. resolvedMay 8, 2026, 22:07 UTC

   This incident has been resolved.

2. monitoringMay 8, 2026, 21:39 UTC

   Lets Encrypt is now reporting as healthy. We will continue monitoring as cluster operations return to a healthy state.

3. monitoringMay 8, 2026, 19:33 UTC

   Cluster operations are currently impaired due to issues with Lets Encrypt. We are actively monitoring the situation as more updates come in.

What APIStatus.watch saw

Our 5-minute checks didn't record a change in MongoDB Atlas's overall status around this incident. Smaller or regional incidents often leave a provider's overall status green.

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How often does MongoDB Atlas have incidents?

MongoDB Atlas reported 15 incidents in the last 90 days, 7 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 2h 31m. See MongoDB Atlas's uptime and incident history