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Render outage: Certificate issuance paused for Let's Encrypt

Render reported this major-impact incident on its official status page on May 8, 2026, 20:22 UTC. It was resolved after 44 min.

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May 8, 2026, 20:22 UTC
started
May 8, 2026, 21:06 UTC
resolved
44 min
duration
Major
impact

Affected components

  • Custom Domains

Timeline

updates from Render's status page ↗
  1. resolvedMay 8, 2026, 21:06 UTC

    Let's Encrypt has resumed certificate issuance.

  2. monitoringMay 8, 2026, 20:22 UTC

    Due to an ongoing incident, Let's Encrypt has paused all certificate issuance. This primarily impacts wildcard domains on Render. In rare instances, non-wildcard custom domains may be using Let's Encrypt for their certificates.

What APIStatus.watch saw

Our 5-minute checks didn't record a change in Render'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 Render have incidents?

Render reported 16 incidents in the last 90 days, 10 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 1h 31m. See Render's uptime and incident history

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Render outage on May 8, 2026: Certificate issuance paused for Let's Encrypt · APIStatus.watch