Where does Uptimus get the official Lets Encrypt status?

Uptimus reads the official Lets Encrypt status source and normalizes its incidents, maintenance windows and component states. The links below let you verify the provider information directly. Lets Encrypt Status Page: https://letsencrypt.status.io Lets Encrypt Home Page: https://letsencrypt.org

Lets Encrypt says it is up, but I am having issues. What could be wrong?

The official page may not yet reflect a new incident, the problem may affect only a small group of accounts or one region, or it may be local to your device, network, software or ISP. Check the affected components and community reports above, test another connection or device, and contact Lets Encrypt support if the problem continues.

How can I check whether Lets Encrypt is having issues?

Compare the normalized status and recent incidents on this page with the official provider source. Uptimus keeps official component changes, maintenance, community reports and recent incident details together so you can distinguish a broad outage from a local problem.

How to get notified about Lets Encrypt outages?

Add Lets Encrypt to your Uptimus workspace, then choose the event types and delivery channels you want to use. Depending on your plan and configuration, alerts can be sent by email, push, webhook or configured integrations for major outages, smaller issues, maintenance and recovery. If Lets Encrypt exposes components, you can monitor all of them or restrict official alerts to the products your team uses.

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Lets Encrypt status

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Lets Encrypt has active maintenance
Official provider status
Oct 26, 10:59 PM UTC
Official maintenance active
API Database Maintenance — October 22, 2026 23:39 UTC Scheduled - We're performing database maintenance which may result in some ACME clients receiving timeouts for up to a 10 minute period. October 22, 2026 23:39 UTC Active - We're performing database maintenance which may result in some ACME clients receiving timeouts for up to a 10 minute period. October 22, 2026 23:44 UTC Completed - Database maintenance is complete.
Official provider status
Oct 22, 11:44 PM UTC
Official maintenance active
API Database Maintenance — October 15, 2026 03:20 UTC Scheduled - We're performing database maintenance which may result in some ACME clients receiving timeouts for up to a 10 minute period. October 15, 2026 03:21 UTC Active - We're performing database maintenance which may result in some ACME clients receiving timeouts for up to a 10 minute period. October 15, 2026 03:25 UTC Completed - Database maintenance is complete.
Official provider status
Oct 15, 3:25 AM UTC

Lets Encrypt outage reports

0 individual report entries in the last 24 hours. This list includes legacy imports; external source aggregates are shown in the chart.

No recent outage reports

No community outage reports have been submitted for this service in the last 24 hours.

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Lets Encrypt status history

Official status observations, not measured service uptime.

Lets Encrypt components

Component name	Status
Lets Encrypt acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org (Production) - High Assurance Datacenter 1 status	Up
Lets Encrypt acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org (Production) - High Assurance Datacenter 2 status	Up
Lets Encrypt acme-staging-v02.api.letsencrypt.org (Staging) - High Assurance Datacenter 1 status	Up
Lets Encrypt portal.letsencrypt.org (Production) - High Assurance Datacenter 1 status	Up
Lets Encrypt portal.letsencrypt.org (Production) - High Assurance Datacenter 2 status	Up
Lets Encrypt portal-staging.letsencrypt.org (Staging) - High Assurance Datacenter 1 status	Up
Lets Encrypt *.c.lencr.org (Production) - Public Data Center status	Up
Lets Encrypt stg-*.c.lencr.org (Staging) - Public Data Center status	Up
Lets Encrypt Website - Public Data Center status	Up
Lets Encrypt log.twig.ct.letsencrypt.org - Public Data Center status	Up

Lets Encrypt incident history

Official incidents, early warnings and community reports are identified separately. Early warning history covers only the last 24 hours. Dates use your time zone.

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Incident name	Duration	StartedUTC	Acknowledged	Severity
Official statusResolved	0m	Oct 20, 202612:54 AM UTC	Yes	Minor
Official statusResolved	0m	Oct 12, 202611:36 PM UTC	Yes	Minor
Official statusResolved	0m	Sep 11, 20262:39 AM UTC	Yes	Minor
Official statusResolved	0m	Jun 4, 20263:37 PM UTC	Yes	Minor
Official statusResolved	0m	May 13, 20268:32 PM UTC	Yes	Major
Official statusResolved	0m	Mar 16, 20268:40 PM UTC	Yes	Minor
Official statusResolved	0m	Mar 4, 202611:03 PM UTC	Yes	Maintenance
Official statusResolved	0m	Dec 16, 20254:28 PM UTC	Yes	Minor

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About Lets Encrypt monitoring on Uptimus

Uptimus monitors Lets Encrypt through its official status source and normalizes published incidents, maintenance windows and component health into one consistent service status.

This page currently includes 12 monitored components, 10 indexed incidents, 13 maintenance windows and 8 days of known history.

Uptimus is an independent monitoring service and is not affiliated with Lets Encrypt. A healthy status does not guarantee that every user, device or region is unaffected.

How Uptimus monitors Lets Encrypt

Get notified when Lets Encrypt or one of its monitored components reports a major outage or another critical service disruption. Alerts can be routed through the notification channels enabled for your workspace, including email, push and configured integrations. The available history contains 10 indexed incidents, giving each alert context beyond the current status. A recent indexed incident was “Issuance disruption”.

Get notified about degraded performance, partial impact and smaller incidents that do not represent a complete outage. Uptimus currently tracks 12 Lets Encrypt components: acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org (Production) - High Assurance Datacenter 1, acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org (Production) - High Assurance Datacenter 2, acme-staging-v02.api.letsencrypt.org (Staging) - High Assurance Datacenter 1, portal.letsencrypt.org (Production) - High Assurance Datacenter 1. Alerts can be routed through the notification channels enabled for your workspace, including email, push and configured integrations.

Scheduled maintenance

Planned work published by the official provider.

API Database Maintenance
Maintenance
October 22, 2026 23:39 UTC Scheduled - We're performing database maintenance which may result in some ACME clients receiving timeouts for up to a 10 minute period. October 22, 2026 23:39 UTC Active - We're performing database maintenance which may result in some ACME clients receiving timeouts for up to a 10 minute period. October 22, 2026 23:44 UTC Completed - Database maintenance is complete.
Started Oct 22, 2026, 11:44 PM UTC · Ongoing
API Database Maintenance
Maintenance
October 15, 2026 03:20 UTC Scheduled - We're performing database maintenance which may result in some ACME clients receiving timeouts for up to a 10 minute period. October 15, 2026 03:21 UTC Active - We're performing database maintenance which may result in some ACME clients receiving timeouts for up to a 10 minute period. October 15, 2026 03:25 UTC Completed - Database maintenance is complete.
Started Oct 15, 2026, 03:25 AM UTC · Ongoing
Staging API Maintenance
Maintenance
October 8, 2026 22:31 UTC Scheduled - We're performing maintenance in our staging environment, which may result in some ACME clients receiving timeouts or errors for brief periods. Our production environment will not be affected. October 8, 2026 22:32 UTC Active - We're performing maintenance in our staging environment, which may result in some ACME clients receiving timeouts or errors for brief periods. Our production environment will not be affected. October 9, 2026 01:10 UTC Completed - Staging maintenance is complete.
Started Oct 9, 2026, 01:10 AM UTC · Ongoing
Production Database Maintenance
Maintenance
September 2, 2026 20:07 UTC Scheduled - We will be performing production database maintenance. Clients may experience delays or errors during this period. September 2, 2026 20:30 UTC Active - We are beginning maintenance work on the production database. September 2, 2026 22:27 UTC Active - Maintenance is taking longer than anticipated and may extend beyond the scheduled window by up to an hour. September 2, 2026 23:28 UTC Completed - Maintenance is complete!
Started Sep 2, 2026, 11:28 PM UTC · Ongoing
Production Datacenter Maintenance
Maintenance
August 24, 2026 19:14 UTC Scheduled - We will be performing production database maintenance. Clients may experience delays or errors during this period as traffic is shifted around. August 24, 2026 19:56 UTC Active - Production database maintenance is beginning. August 24, 2026 20:30 UTC Completed - Production database maintenance has been completed. Happy issuance.
Started Aug 24, 2026, 08:30 PM UTC · Ongoing
Staging Maintenance
Maintenance
July 28, 2026 23:10 UTC Scheduled - We're performing maintenance to our staging environment which may result in some ACME clients receiving timeouts for up to a 10 minute period. The production environment is not affected. July 28, 2026 23:10 UTC Active - We're performing maintenance to our staging environment which may result in some ACME clients receiving timeouts for up to a 10 minute period. The production environment is not affected. July 28, 2026 23:15 UTC Completed - Staging maintenance is complete.
Started Jul 28, 2026, 11:15 PM UTC · Ongoing
API Database Maintenance
Maintenance
July 28, 2026 20:47 UTC Scheduled - We're performing database maintenance which may result in some ACME clients receiving timeouts for up to a 10 minute period. July 28, 2026 20:50 UTC Active - We're performing database maintenance which may result in some ACME clients receiving timeouts for up to a 10 minute period. July 28, 2026 20:52 UTC Completed - Database maintenance is complete.
Started Jul 28, 2026, 08:52 PM UTC · Ongoing
Staging API Maintenance
Resolved
July 23, 2026 01:36 UTC Scheduled - We're performing maintenance to our staging environment which may result in errors or timeouts during this window. Our production environment is not affected. July 23, 2026 01:39 UTC Active - Staging maintenance is in progress. July 23, 2026 02:02 UTC Completed - Staging maintenance is complete.
Started Jul 23, 2026, 02:02 AM UTC · Resolved Jul 23, 2026, 02:02 AM UTC

Maintenance notifications

Receive alerts when Lets Encrypt publishes planned, scheduled or active maintenance affecting the service. Uptimus has indexed 13 maintenance windows from the available Lets Encrypt history. Alerts can be routed through the notification channels enabled for your workspace, including email, push and configured integrations.

Recovery notifications

Know when Lets Encrypt or an affected component returns to healthy operation after an issue or outage. The current page contains 8 days of known status history, while resolved events remain available for later review. Alerts can be routed through the notification channels enabled for your workspace, including email, push and configured integrations.

Status messages

Uptimus stores the incident headline published by Lets Encrypt and presents it with the normalized service status. The available history contains 10 indexed incidents, giving each alert context beyond the current status. A recent indexed incident was “Issuance disruption”.

Status details

Incident and maintenance updates are preserved so you can follow investigations, mitigations and recovery progress. A recent official update preserved by Uptimus reads: “October 20, 2026 00:28 UTC Investigating - We're seeing elevated rates of validation failures that shouldn't be happening. We're investigating, and expect to resolve the issue soon. October 20, 2026 00:41 UTC Identified - We've identified the problem that's…”.

Component status filtering

Choose all components or only the Lets Encrypt products you use. Official alerts then respect that component selection. Uptimus currently tracks 12 Lets Encrypt components: acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org (Production) - High Assurance Datacenter 1, acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org (Production) - High Assurance Datacenter 2, acme-staging-v02.api.letsencrypt.org (Staging) - High Assurance Datacenter 1, portal.letsencrypt.org (Production) - High Assurance Datacenter 1. Filtering changes which official alerts are delivered; it does not remove the provider's events from the public history.

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Comparison

Uptimus vs Downdetector for Lets Encrypt

Downdetector public pages are led by user reports. Uptimus combines community activity with official provider incidents, maintenance windows and component health when the source publishes them.

Uptimus vs Downdetector for Lets Encrypt
Comparison criteria	Uptimus	Downdetector
Community outage reports for Lets Encrypt	Included	Included
Adaptive baseline that separates isolated reports from wider disruption	Included	Included
24-hour report activity and regional outage view	Included	Included
One workspace for websites, provider status pages, Steam games and Android apps and games	Included	Separate product
Email, push and webhook alerts from the same workspace	Included	Separate product
Official incident updates and status timeline for Lets Encrypt	Included	User-report led
Component health and maintenance windows kept separate	Included	Limited on public pages

IncludedUser-report led · Limited on public pagesSeparate product

The official status page for Lets Encrypt reports normal operation. 0 reports were recorded for Lets Encrypt in the last 24 hours. Last official check: Oct 26, 10:59 PM UTC.