Flightcontrol incident

Certificate Issuance failing due to LetsEncrypt Outage

Critical Resolved View vendor source →

Flightcontrol experienced a critical incident on May 8, 2026 affecting SSL/TLS Certificate Provisioning, lasting 2h 24m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
May 08, 2026, 06:45 PM UTC
Resolved
May 08, 2026, 09:09 PM UTC
Duration
2h 24m
Detected by Pingoru
May 08, 2026, 06:45 PM UTC

Affected components

SSL/TLS Certificate Provisioning

Update timeline

  1. identified May 08, 2026, 08:25 PM UTC

    Due to a service outage at LetsEncrypt, creating new certificates with `fly certs add` is failing. Existing certificates and `*.fly.dev` preview certificates are not impacted. For additional details please see LetsEncrypt's statuspage https://letsencrypt.status.io/pages/incident/55957a99e800baa4470002da/69fe2d6698ca07050eb4b1b3

  2. monitoring May 08, 2026, 09:02 PM UTC

    We are seeing recovery and certificates are now issuing normally. We are continuing to monitor to ensure full recovery.

  3. resolved May 08, 2026, 09:09 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.