GlobalSign Outage History

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GlobalSign had 33 outages in the last 2 years totaling 1503h 38m of downtime — averaging 1.4 incidents per month.

There were 33 GlobalSign outages since June 6, 2024 totaling 1503h 38m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Source: https://status.globalsign.com

Minor April 16, 2026

Atlas Portal usage display problems affecting some customers

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 16, 2026, 04:03 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 29, 2026, 08:53 AM UTC
Duration
12d 16h
Affected: User Portal
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. identified Apr 16, 2026, 04:03 PM UTC

    We are aware of some further issues relating to the display of usage in the Atlas portal, affecting a small number of customers. The development team are actively working on a fix for affected customers. Certificate issuance and use of the APIs themselves is not affected.

  2. identified Apr 20, 2026, 04:17 PM UTC

    Our development team are currently testing a fix for the issue. We will provide further updates as this is confirmed ready for production release.

  3. monitoring Apr 23, 2026, 07:25 PM UTC

    The team have successfully deployed the fix and we are closely monitoring to ensure that the issue is resolved for all affected customers.

  4. resolved Apr 29, 2026, 08:53 AM UTC

    Following an extended period of close monitoring, the team have confirmed that the issue is resolved.

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Notice April 9, 2026

Brief error spike on Atlas API services

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 09, 2026, 12:45 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 09, 2026, 01:33 PM UTC
Duration
48m
Affected: Document Signing Service (DSS)Certificate IssuanceTime Stamping
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Apr 09, 2026, 12:45 PM UTC

    We just experienced a high spike in errors on the Atlas APIs (HVCA, DSS, TSA). The issue lasted for a few minutes between roughly 12:25 and 12:35 UTC. The issue is no longer occurring but the Infrastructure team are investigating the root cause.

  2. monitoring Apr 09, 2026, 12:46 PM UTC

    The Infrastructure team have identified the root cause and are monitoring the situation.

  3. resolved Apr 09, 2026, 01:33 PM UTC

    The issue has been confirmed resolved

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Notice March 30, 2026

Intermittent issue affecting HVCA and DSS APIs

Detected by Pingoru
Mar 30, 2026, 07:01 AM UTC
Resolved
Mar 30, 2026, 03:00 AM UTC
Duration
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Mar 30, 2026, 07:01 AM UTC

    We are aware of incident which caused some intermittent periods of errors and timeouts between 04:00 and 04:45 UTC this morning. The Infrastructure team have identified and resolved the issue.

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Notice March 27, 2026

Some customers may see incorrect usage in the Atlas portal

Detected by Pingoru
Mar 27, 2026, 07:00 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 03, 2026, 01:07 AM UTC
Duration
6d 6h
Affected: User Portal
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. identified Mar 27, 2026, 07:00 PM UTC

    We are aware that following a portal update, some customers may see incorrect usage data displayed. Our development team are currently validating the fix and we expect this to be deployed on Monday. Certificate issuance and use of the APIs themselves is not affected.

  2. identified Mar 30, 2026, 04:29 PM UTC

    The development team are deploying a fix which should restore proper visualisation of usage for some sets of customers. A fix for remaining affected customers is expected to be deployed tomorrow.

  3. identified Mar 31, 2026, 06:06 PM UTC

    The development team are still working on resolving the issue. We will continue to post updates as they become available

  4. resolved Apr 03, 2026, 01:07 AM UTC

    The issue affecting usage display in the Atlas portal has been resolved. All fixes have been successfully deployed, and the service is operating normally.

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Notice March 17, 2026

Intermittent certificate issuance failures on GCC

Detected by Pingoru
Mar 17, 2026, 08:14 AM UTC
Resolved
Mar 17, 2026, 08:30 AM UTC
Duration
15m
Affected: Certificate Issuance
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. monitoring Mar 17, 2026, 08:14 AM UTC

    We have seen a brief issue with issuance on GCC causing some certificate requests to fail or be delayed over the last 15-20 minutes. The team are working to ensure the problem is resolved.

  2. resolved Mar 17, 2026, 08:30 AM UTC

    The issue has been confirmed as resolved.

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Minor March 17, 2026

OCSP Request Errors

Detected by Pingoru
Mar 17, 2026, 02:02 AM UTC
Resolved
Apr 13, 2026, 09:19 AM UTC
Duration
27d 7h
Affected: OCSP & CRL Services
Timeline · 5 updates
  1. monitoring Mar 17, 2026, 02:02 AM UTC

    We identified an issue that affected the processing of some OCSP requests. Mitigation steps have been implemented, and the service is currently operating normally. We are continuing to monitor the situation to ensure ongoing stability.

  2. monitoring Mar 19, 2026, 10:20 AM UTC

    We are continuing to work with our CDN providers to troubleshoot the issue before restoring full CDN redundancy. To provide some more details - the first reports of the issue were received on 4th March, with further reports on 9th-12th March. We were able to recreate and identify the issue on 16th March, with a mitigation put in place around 12:25 UTC on 16th March.

  3. monitoring Apr 07, 2026, 02:52 PM UTC

    Our third party CDN provider has confirmed that a fix has been deployed and we are in the process of testing this before planning to restore full CDN redundancy tomorrow at around 10:00 UTC. Our team will be monitoring closely throughout this period.

  4. monitoring Apr 08, 2026, 02:43 PM UTC

    Full CDN redundancy has been restored as planned, and behaviour is under close monitoring. If no issues are encountered, we will close this issue.

  5. resolved Apr 13, 2026, 09:19 AM UTC

    No further issues have been encountered

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Minor February 25, 2026

Higher than normal error rate on Atlas APIs

Detected by Pingoru
Feb 25, 2026, 02:19 PM UTC
Resolved
Feb 25, 2026, 03:15 PM UTC
Duration
55m
Affected: Document Signing Service (DSS)Certificate Issuance
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. monitoring Feb 25, 2026, 02:19 PM UTC

    The team have seen an increase in error rate on the Atlas (HVCA and DSS) APIs. This seems to be related to an internal failover event but showed a brief failure rate of around 4% on /login calls. The team are confirming the root cause and are monitoring the situation, although it appears to be stable.

  2. resolved Feb 25, 2026, 03:15 PM UTC

    The issue has been confirmed related to a failover event on one of our database clusters and has been confirmed as resolved.

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Minor February 18, 2026

Intermittent errors with Atlas HVCA /stats endpoint

Detected by Pingoru
Feb 18, 2026, 03:21 PM UTC
Resolved
Feb 19, 2026, 10:05 AM UTC
Duration
18h 44m
Affected: Certificate Issuance
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. identified Feb 18, 2026, 03:21 PM UTC

    We are aware of an issue which is causing sporadic failures when calling the /stats endpoint on the Atlas HVCA API. The team is working on this and will restore full functionality as soon as we can. Certificate issuance and other features are unaffected.

  2. resolved Feb 19, 2026, 10:05 AM UTC

    The issue was resolved last night UK time, and full functionality has now been confirmed restored.

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Minor January 19, 2026

Problem delivering Japan Certified timestamps

Detected by Pingoru
Jan 19, 2026, 10:34 AM UTC
Resolved
Jan 19, 2026, 11:54 AM UTC
Duration
1h 19m
Affected: Timestamping (Japan Certified Timestamp partner) for document signingDocument Signing Service (DSS)Time Stamping
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. identified Jan 19, 2026, 10:34 AM UTC

    We are experiencing an issue with Japan certified timestamps. This relates to a problem at our upstream provider. We are monitoring the situation and will provide updates as we get them. This also affects customers obtaining Japan certified timestamps through the Atlas TSA and DSS services

  2. monitoring Jan 19, 2026, 10:40 AM UTC

    The issue looks to have been resolved, however we are waiting for an update from our provider to confirm that everything is stable.

  3. resolved Jan 19, 2026, 11:54 AM UTC

    Our supplier has confirmed the issue is resolved.

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Minor December 10, 2025

Errors on HVCA /stats endpoints

Detected by Pingoru
Dec 10, 2025, 02:08 PM UTC
Resolved
Dec 12, 2025, 07:44 AM UTC
Duration
1d 17h
Affected: Certificate Issuance
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. identified Dec 10, 2025, 02:08 PM UTC

    We are seeing a higher than normal failure rate of calls to the /stats endpoints on the HVCA (Atlas Certificate Management API). This relates to problems in the logging cluster which the team are currently working to resolve. Issuance and other core services are not affected.

  2. identified Dec 11, 2025, 07:59 AM UTC

    The team are continuing to work on resolving the issues with the logging cluster and hope to have the problem resolved soon.

  3. resolved Dec 12, 2025, 07:44 AM UTC

    The issue has been resolved and we've not seen further errors.

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Minor December 1, 2025

SSL errors occur for TLS certificates issued on December 1

Detected by Pingoru
Dec 01, 2025, 10:33 AM UTC
Resolved
Dec 01, 2025, 01:12 PM UTC
Duration
2h 39m
Affected: Certificate IssuanceCertificate Issuance
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. identified Dec 01, 2025, 10:33 AM UTC

    We are aware of an issue affecting TLS certificates issued on 1st December which can cause them to not be trusted by some browsers. This is caused by the trust status of some of the 2027 CT Logs. We are urgently removing affected logs from our configuration. Re-issuing affected certificates will resolve the problem.

  2. resolved Dec 01, 2025, 01:12 PM UTC

    The issue affecting TLS certificates issued on or after December 1 has been resolved. All affected CT logs have been removed from our configuration, and reissuing certificates restores trust in all major browsers. If you have not yet reissued your certificate, please do so to ensure proper functionality. Services are operating normally.

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Minor November 28, 2025

Problem accessing some sections of Atlas portal

Detected by Pingoru
Nov 28, 2025, 05:51 PM UTC
Resolved
Dec 01, 2025, 09:57 AM UTC
Duration
2d 16h
Affected: User Portal
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. identified Nov 28, 2025, 05:51 PM UTC

    We have detected an issue with the Atlas portal which may cause errors when trying to access some sections. This is caused by the browser caching stale code - if you experience this issue, please do a hard reload ("Ctrl-F5" or "Ctrl-Shift-R") or clear your browser cache, which should resolve the problem.

  2. resolved Dec 01, 2025, 09:57 AM UTC

    We are no longer seeing any failed requests in our logs relating to this issue. If you do experience any problems with the portal, please try the actions mentioned above which should resolve it.

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Critical November 27, 2025

Atlas portal issue

Detected by Pingoru
Nov 27, 2025, 06:20 PM UTC
Resolved
Nov 27, 2025, 06:53 PM UTC
Duration
33m
Affected: User Portal
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Nov 27, 2025, 06:20 PM UTC

    We are investigating an issue with the Atlas portal which is causing it to hang after login. We will post further information as we find the root cause.

  2. resolved Nov 27, 2025, 06:53 PM UTC

    The issue has been resolved.

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Major November 25, 2025

GCC Certificate Issuance

Detected by Pingoru
Nov 25, 2025, 08:05 AM UTC
Resolved
Nov 25, 2025, 12:33 PM UTC
Duration
4h 28m
Affected: Certificate Issuance
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Nov 25, 2025, 08:05 AM UTC

    We’re currently investigating reports of a potential service interruption with GCC Certificate Issuance. The root cause is currently unknown. We understand the issues this may be causing and are working hard to resolve the problem as soon as possible.

  2. monitoring Nov 25, 2025, 08:49 AM UTC

    Service for GCC Certificate Issuance has been restored, and customers should now be able to issue certificates normally. We are closely monitoring the system to ensure stability. The root cause is still under investigation, and we will provide updates as soon as more information is available.

  3. resolved Nov 25, 2025, 12:33 PM UTC

    The GCC Certificate Issuance service has been fully restored and is operating normally.

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Minor November 21, 2025

Increased error rate on Atlas TSA service

Detected by Pingoru
Nov 21, 2025, 04:41 PM UTC
Resolved
Nov 25, 2025, 01:25 PM UTC
Duration
3d 20h
Affected: Time Stamping
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Nov 21, 2025, 04:41 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating a slightly increased error rate on the Atlas TSA service, resulting in customers receiving HTTP 503 errors in a small number of cases. Retrying failed requests should result in a successful response. We will provide updates as we identify the cause.

  2. investigating Nov 24, 2025, 05:00 PM UTC

    We are continuing to investigate this issue. The problem is limited to customers using Atlas Timestamping with the Japanese Qualified Timestamp service provided by our partner in Japan. However, we are yet to identify the root cause for the high failure rate of these timestamps.

  3. monitoring Nov 24, 2025, 05:31 PM UTC

    We have found a way to prevent the errors for affected customers and have implemented this while we confirm and resolve the root cause. We will keep a close eye on error levels on the service over the next 24 hours.

  4. resolved Nov 25, 2025, 01:25 PM UTC

    No further errors have been recorded.

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Critical November 15, 2025

Investigating issues with the GCC Certificate Issuance

Detected by Pingoru
Nov 15, 2025, 11:49 AM UTC
Resolved
Nov 16, 2025, 01:38 PM UTC
Duration
1d 1h
Affected: GCC User PortalCertificate Issuance
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Nov 15, 2025, 11:49 AM UTC

    We’re currently investigating reports of a potential service interruption with GCC Certificate Issuance. The root cause is currently unknown. We understand the issues this may be causing and are working hard to resolve the problem as soon as possible.

  2. monitoring Nov 15, 2025, 12:14 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. monitoring Nov 15, 2025, 12:15 PM UTC

    We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

  4. resolved Nov 16, 2025, 01:38 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Notice November 6, 2025

Intermittent issues with Atlas APIs (HVCA, DSS)

Detected by Pingoru
Nov 06, 2025, 04:18 PM UTC
Resolved
Nov 10, 2025, 10:38 AM UTC
Duration
3d 18h
Affected: Document Signing Service (DSS)Certificate Issuance
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. monitoring Nov 06, 2025, 04:18 PM UTC

    We have recently experienced intermittent errors on the Atlas APIs. This seems to be related to connectivity issues with one of our ISPs. The platform is currently operating normally, however we are closely monitoring and are tuning the system to reduce the probability of any further problems.

  2. monitoring Nov 07, 2025, 05:48 PM UTC

    Our ISP has confirmed the root cause and is implementing changes to prevent similar disruption in future. We are also changing some settings on our side to increase resilience. We will leave this incident in "Monitoring" status for the moment just to be sure, but all systems are operating as expected at the current time.

  3. resolved Nov 10, 2025, 10:38 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Major October 30, 2025

Issue creating credentials in Atlas portal

Detected by Pingoru
Oct 30, 2025, 04:36 PM UTC
Resolved
Oct 30, 2025, 07:23 PM UTC
Duration
2h 47m
Affected: User Portal
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Oct 30, 2025, 04:36 PM UTC

    We are investigating reports of users being unable to create credentials in the Atlas portal. We will update once we have identified the issue.

  2. investigating Oct 30, 2025, 04:51 PM UTC

    We have confirmed there is an issue with creating credentials and mTLS certs, resulting in an HTTP 500 error. Our team are investigating.

  3. identified Oct 30, 2025, 05:07 PM UTC

    We have identified the issue and are working to resolve it.

  4. resolved Oct 30, 2025, 07:23 PM UTC

    The issue has been resolved.

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Notice September 18, 2025

Issue with DSS and HVCA API functionality

Detected by Pingoru
Sep 18, 2025, 12:12 PM UTC
Resolved
Sep 19, 2025, 05:24 AM UTC
Duration
17h 11m
Affected: Document Signing Service (DSS)Certificate Issuance
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. monitoring Sep 18, 2025, 12:12 PM UTC

    We experienced an issue affecting API functionality for HVCA and DSS services, potentially impacting users across multiple geographies. The problem has been resolved and services are now operating normally. The team is currently monitoring system performance to ensure continued stability. We appreciate your patience and will provide a final update once monitoring is complete.

  2. resolved Sep 19, 2025, 05:24 AM UTC

    After extensive end-to-end monitoring, we confirm that the issue did not reoccur and all systems are stable. This case is now considered resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

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Minor September 10, 2025

Issues affecting domain claims in Atlas

Detected by Pingoru
Sep 10, 2025, 01:18 PM UTC
Resolved
Sep 10, 2025, 05:23 PM UTC
Duration
4h 5m
Affected: Certificate Issuance
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Sep 10, 2025, 01:18 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating an issue affecting domain claims in Atlas. Primarily this affects customers calling ACME to renew domain claims, however we have seen errors relating to direct calls to the API. Our team are working on a resolution.

  2. monitoring Sep 10, 2025, 03:27 PM UTC

    We have implemented a fix and are no longer seeing the errors. We are monitoring to ensure everything is stable.

  3. resolved Sep 10, 2025, 05:23 PM UTC

    There have been no further errors since the fix was implemented so we are marking this issue as resolved.

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Minor September 10, 2025

Problem sending domain validation emails from Atlas

Detected by Pingoru
Sep 10, 2025, 11:01 AM UTC
Resolved
Sep 11, 2025, 06:54 AM UTC
Duration
19h 53m
Affected: Certificate Issuance
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Sep 10, 2025, 11:01 AM UTC

    We are currently investigating an issue which seems to be preventing domain validation emails being sent from Atlas - we are seeing a number of errors in our logs relating to email submission.

  2. identified Sep 10, 2025, 12:03 PM UTC

    We have identified the issue and are working with our email relay provider to resolve.

  3. identified Sep 10, 2025, 05:24 PM UTC

    We are continuing to work with our service provider on resolving the issue.

  4. resolved Sep 11, 2025, 06:54 AM UTC

    The problem has been resolved.

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Critical July 17, 2025

Problems accessing www.globalsign.com

Detected by Pingoru
Jul 17, 2025, 12:47 PM UTC
Resolved
Jul 17, 2025, 01:08 PM UTC
Duration
20m
Affected: Marketing Websites
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Jul 17, 2025, 12:47 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating an issue which is affecting access to the www.globalsign.com marketing site. Core service functionality is not affected.

  2. resolved Jul 17, 2025, 01:08 PM UTC

    The issue has been resolved and the marketing websites are fully available globally.

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Notice June 23, 2025

Investigating issues with the GCC portal access and certificate issuance

Detected by Pingoru
Jun 23, 2025, 10:15 AM UTC
Resolved
Jun 23, 2025, 11:10 AM UTC
Duration
55m
Affected: GCC User PortalCertificate Issuance
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Jun 23, 2025, 10:15 AM UTC

    We’re currently investigating reports of a service interruption with GCC Certificate Issuance. The root cause is currently unknown. We understand the issues this may be causing and are working hard to resolve the problem as soon as possible.

  2. monitoring Jun 23, 2025, 10:42 AM UTC

    The system has now stabilised, and the GCC system is back online. We will continue monitoring GCC for a while to ensure the system has been fully restored.

  3. resolved Jun 23, 2025, 11:10 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Notice April 7, 2025

GCC Certificate Issuance Failure

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 07, 2025, 06:27 AM UTC
Resolved
Apr 07, 2025, 09:43 AM UTC
Duration
3h 15m
Affected: Certificate Issuance
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. monitoring Apr 07, 2025, 06:27 AM UTC

    We identified an issue affecting certificate issuance through the GCC platform, causing an intermittent issuance failure. Some of the CAs were successful upon reprocessing. The team had resolved the issue, but we are continually monitoring in case of further problems. The team are planning mitigations in case of re-occurrence.

  2. resolved Apr 07, 2025, 09:43 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Critical March 21, 2025

Issue with Atlas issuance and DSS

Detected by Pingoru
Mar 21, 2025, 08:52 AM UTC
Resolved
Mar 21, 2025, 09:26 AM UTC
Duration
34m
Affected: Document Signing Service (DSS)Certificate Issuance
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Mar 21, 2025, 08:52 AM UTC

    We are currently investigating an issue affecting Atlas certificate issuance and DSS services. We will provide an update as soon as we have confirmed the scope.

  2. identified Mar 21, 2025, 09:01 AM UTC

    The Infrastructure team have identified the cause and are working on a resolution. HVCA and DSS are currently unavailable. TSA services are unaffected.

  3. monitoring Mar 21, 2025, 09:16 AM UTC

    The issue has been resolved and we are closely monitoring as the service returns to normal parameters

  4. resolved Mar 21, 2025, 09:26 AM UTC

    No further issues have been seen, and the service is returning to normal throughput levels. We are marking this issue as resolved.

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