Cloudflare incident

Certificate Issuance through Let's Encrypt unavailable

Cloudflare experienced a minor incident on May 8, 2026 affecting SSL Certificate Provisioning and SSL for SaaS Provisioning, lasting 1h 11m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started: May 08, 2026, 07:46 PM UTC
Resolved: May 08, 2026, 08:58 PM UTC
Duration: 1h 11m
Detected by Pingoru: May 08, 2026, 07:46 PM UTC

Affected components

SSL Certificate ProvisioningSSL for SaaS Provisioning

Update timeline

investigating May 08, 2026, 07:46 PM UTC

We are aware of an issue affecting certificate issuance through Let's Encrypt. Customers using Universal SSL, Advanced Certificate Manager, or Cloudflare for SaaS may experience delays or failures when issuing or renewing certificates that use Let's Encrypt as the Certificate Authority. Certificates issued through other CAs (such as Google Trust Services) are not affected. Existing certificates that have already been issued remain valid and are unaffected. We are actively monitoring Let's Encrypt availability and will issue certificates as soon as service is restored. We will provide updates as more information becomes available.
monitoring May 08, 2026, 08:53 PM UTC

We have confirmed recovery and will continue monitoring for improvement.
resolved May 08, 2026, 08:58 PM UTC

This incident has been resolved.