# Certificate issuance paused for Let's Encrypt

- Provider: [Render](https://down.guide/providers/render)
- Confidence: Confirmed
- Impact: Partial outage
- lasted 44m
- started 2026-05-08 20:22 UTC
- Custom Domains
- id: DWN-d6f4ef336a
- Official page: https://stspg.io/5dxgkm5p8dc9

## Updates from Render
### 2026-05-08 20:22 UTC: monitoring
Due to an ongoing incident, Let's Encrypt has paused all certificate issuance. This primarily impacts wildcard domains on Render. In rare instances, non-wildcard custom domains may be using Let's Encrypt for their certificates.

### 2026-05-08 21:06 UTC: resolved
Let's Encrypt has resumed certificate issuance.

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