Is Let's Encrypt down?
Let's Encrypt is up
Right now
No. No incidents reported.
Last checked (2026-10-10 07:13 UTC) from letsencrypt.status.io · every 120s
For agents
proceed
Proceed.
GET upbutler.com/status/letsencrypt/status.agent.json
MCP: upstream_status {"service":"letsencrypt"}
Free TLS certificates. During an issuance incident new domains and renewals stall; existing certificates keep working.
What Let's Encrypt says
Operational
Taken as is from Let's Encrypt's own status API. Incident titles and component names below are theirs.
Open letsencrypt.status.ioWhat UpButler measured
ACME directory is answeringHTTP 200 · 540 ms
One request without credentials to acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org every two minutes, from eu-central (one location, not a global view). An answer shows the edge, TLS and routing work. It does not prove that authenticated calls succeed.
Checked · up since 2026-10-10 06:09 UTC
Let's Encrypt components
10 operational
- acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org (Production)Operational
- acme-staging-v02.api.letsencrypt.org (Staging)Operational
- portal.letsencrypt.org (Production)Operational
- portal-staging.letsencrypt.org (Staging)Operational
- *.c.lencr.org (Production)Operational
- stg-*.c.lencr.org (Staging)Operational
- WebsiteOperational
- log.twig.ct.letsencrypt.orgOperational
- log.sycamore.ct.letsencrypt.orgOperational
- log.willow.ct.letsencrypt.orgOperational
Let's Encrypt incidents, last 90 days
- 2026-07-13: no record
- 2026-07-14: no record
- 2026-07-15: no record
- 2026-07-16: no record
- 2026-07-17: no record
- 2026-07-18: no record
- 2026-07-19: no record
- 2026-07-20: no record
- 2026-07-21: no record
- 2026-07-22: no record
- 2026-07-23: no record
- 2026-07-24: no record
- 2026-07-25: no record
- 2026-07-26: no record
- 2026-07-27: no record
- 2026-07-28: no record
- 2026-07-29: no record
- 2026-07-30: no record
- 2026-07-31: no record
- 2026-08-01: no record
- 2026-08-02: no record
- 2026-08-03: no record
- 2026-08-04: no record
- 2026-08-05: no record
- 2026-08-06: no record
- 2026-08-07: no record
- 2026-08-08: no record
- 2026-08-09: no record
- 2026-08-10: no record
- 2026-08-11: no record
- 2026-08-12: no record
- 2026-08-13: no record
- 2026-08-14: no record
- 2026-08-15: no record
- 2026-08-16: no record
- 2026-08-17: no record
- 2026-08-18: no record
- 2026-08-19: no record
- 2026-08-20: no record
- 2026-08-21: no record
- 2026-08-22: no record
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- 2026-08-24: no record
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- 2026-08-30: no record
- 2026-08-31: no record
- 2026-09-01: no record
- 2026-09-02: no record
- 2026-09-03: no record
- 2026-09-04: no record
- 2026-09-05: no record
- 2026-09-06: no record
- 2026-09-07: no record
- 2026-09-08: no record
- 2026-09-09: no record
- 2026-09-10: no record
- 2026-09-11: no record
- 2026-09-12: no record
- 2026-09-13: no record
- 2026-09-14: no record
- 2026-09-15: no record
- 2026-09-16: no record
- 2026-09-17: no record
- 2026-09-18: no record
- 2026-09-19: no record
- 2026-09-20: no record
- 2026-09-21: no record
- 2026-09-22: no record
- 2026-09-23: no record
- 2026-09-24: no record
- 2026-09-25: no record
- 2026-09-26: no record
- 2026-09-27: no record
- 2026-09-28: no record
- 2026-09-29: no record
- 2026-09-30: no record
- 2026-10-01: no record
- 2026-10-02: no record
- 2026-10-03: no record
- 2026-10-04: no record
- 2026-10-05: no record
- 2026-10-06: no record
- 2026-10-07: no record
- 2026-10-08: no record
- 2026-10-09: no record
- 2026-10-10: no incident reported
Each bar is a day, coloured by the worst incident Let's Encrypt reported. It is their incident record, not a measurement of uptime.
No finished incidents on record yet since 2026-10-10. UpButler keeps what Let's Encrypt publishes for 90 days from the day it starts tracking a service.
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Declare that your project depends on Let's Encrypt. When one of your monitors fails while Let's Encrypt has an incident that began around the same time, UpButler tags your incident "likely upstream" with their incident linked, says so in the alert and the AI report, and tells your on-call agent not to change code.
npx upbutler init finds the dependency from your env var names and packages. The catalog, dependencies and upstream-aware incidents are on every plan, including Free.
# upbutler.yaml
dependencies:
- letsencryptcurl -s https://upbutler.com/status/letsencrypt/status.agent.json{
"schema": "upbutler.upstream-status/v1",
"service": "letsencrypt",
"verdict": "proceed",
"status": "operational",
"reason": "No incidents reported",
"retryAfterSec": null,
"incident": null,
"probe": {
"state": "up",
"statusCode": 200
}
}Questions
- Is Let's Encrypt down right now?
- No. As of 2026-10-10 07:13 UTC, Let's Encrypt is up. This page reads the status again every 2 minutes.
- Where does this status come from?
- From Let's Encrypt's own status API at https://letsencrypt.status.io. UpButler reads it once for everyone (not once per visitor) every 2 minutes with conditional requests, and shows it unchanged: incident titles and component names are Let's Encrypt's words.
- What does UpButler's own Let's Encrypt check prove?
- Every two minutes UpButler sends one request without credentials to the Let's Encrypt ACME directory (acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org) from eu-central. Any answer from the edge, usually HTTP 200, shows that DNS, TLS and routing work from there. It does not prove that authenticated requests succeed, and it is one location, not a global view. It is most useful when it fails before their status page changes; the page then says so.
- Can I get an alert when Let's Encrypt goes down?
- Yes, without an account: enter your email on this page, confirm the link we send, and you get one email when Let's Encrypt reports an incident and one when it is over. There is also an RSS feed at https://upbutler.com/status/letsencrypt/feed.rss. Teams on UpButler can route the same alert to Slack, Teams or a webhook.
- How can my agent or app check Let's Encrypt status?
- Fetch https://upbutler.com/status/letsencrypt/status.agent.json: a small JSON document with a verdict (proceed, retry, fallback or pause) and retryAfterSec. No key is needed. The same answer is an MCP tool, upstream_status {"service":"letsencrypt"}, on https://upbutler.com/mcp/public.
- How do I know whether an outage is mine or Let's Encrypt's?
- Add "letsencrypt" to the dependencies of your UpButler workspace. When one of your monitors fails while Let's Encrypt has an incident that began around the same time, your incident is tagged "likely upstream" with their incident linked, and your on-call agent is told not to change code.
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