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Tailscale incident: Certificate creation issues

Tailscale reported this minor-impact incident on its official status page on Aug 3, 2026, 08:39 UTC. It was resolved after 7h 44m.

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Aug 3, 2026, 08:39 UTC
started
Aug 3, 2026, 16:24 UTC
resolved
7h 44m
duration
Minor
impact
  1. resolvedAug 3, 2026, 16:24 UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

  2. monitoringAug 3, 2026, 14:41 UTC

    A fix has been deployed and we are monitoring for any further problems.

  3. investigatingAug 3, 2026, 11:12 UTC

    During our monitoring of this fix, we have noticed an increase in the error rate, which our engineers are investigating further.

  4. monitoringAug 3, 2026, 10:47 UTC

    A fix has been deployed and we are monitoring for any further problems.

  5. investigatingAug 3, 2026, 09:41 UTC

    Our engineers have identified that this incident also affects creation of new Funnel and Serve domains. Existing Funnel and Serve domains remain unaffected.

  6. investigatingAug 3, 2026, 08:39 UTC

    We are investigating a problem which is causing problems with issuing new certificates for MagicDNS hostnames. This problem affects manual certificate issuance and the deployment of new services through Tailscale Serve and Funnel. Existing certificates and services currently exposed by Serve and Funnel will remain unaffected as long as the current certificates stay valid.

What APIStatus.watch saw

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

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Tailscale incident on Aug 3, 2026: Certificate creation issues · APIStatus.watch