Tailscale incident

Certificate creation issues

Tailscale is currently experiencing a major incident affecting Certificates, which began 21h ago. The vendor's full update timeline is below.

Started
Aug 12, 2026, 01:25 PM UTC
Resolved
Ongoing
Duration
● 20h 56m
Detected by Pingoru
Aug 12, 2026, 01:25 PM UTC

Affected components

Certificates

Update timeline

  1. investigating Aug 10, 2026, 04:10 PM UTC

    Status: Investigating 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 or Tailscale Funnel. Existing certificates and services currently exposed by Serve or Funnel will remain unaffected as long as the current certificates stay valid. Affected components Certificates (Degraded performance)

  2. identified Aug 10, 2026, 05:19 PM UTC

    Status: Identified We have identified the problem and are rolling out a fix. Affected components Certificates (Degraded performance)

  3. monitoring Aug 10, 2026, 06:29 PM UTC

    Status: Monitoring A fix has been deployed and we are monitoring for any further problems. Affected components Certificates (Operational)

  4. resolved Aug 11, 2026, 12:42 AM UTC

    Status: Resolved This incident has been resolved. Affected components Certificates (Operational)

  5. investigating Aug 11, 2026, 12:30 PM UTC

    Status: Investigating We are investigating problems with issuing new certificates for MagicDNS hostnames. This problem affects manual certificate issuance and the deployment of new services through Tailscale Serve or Tailscale Funnel. Existing certificates and services currently exposed by Serve or Funnel will remain unaffected as long as the current certificates stay valid. Affected components Certificates (Degraded performance)

  6. identified Aug 11, 2026, 04:28 PM UTC

    Status: Identified We have identified the problem and are rolling out a fix. Affected components Certificates (Degraded performance)

  7. monitoring Aug 12, 2026, 09:30 AM UTC

    Status: Monitoring A fix has been deployed and we are monitoring for any further problems. Affected components Certificates (Operational)

  8. investigating Aug 12, 2026, 01:25 PM UTC

    Status: Investigating 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 or Tailscale Funnel. Existing certificates and services currently exposed by Serve or Funnel will remain unaffected as long as the current certificates stay valid. Affected components Certificates (Degraded performance)