---
id: "INC-digitalocean-p3zyn7c4jyx7"
kind: "incident"
aliases: []
title: "DigitalOcean: Let's Encrypt Outage Affecting Certificate Issuance and Managed Databases Operations"
severity: "medium"
cvss: null
epss: null
exploited: false
status: "resolved"
category: "vendor"
products: [{"name": "DigitalOcean", "fixed": [], "affected": "", "ecosystem": "vendor"}]
ecosystems: ["vendor"]
tags: ["digitalocean", "hosting", "incident", "ops", "vendor"]
not_affected_if: []
published_at: "2026-05-08T20:46:22+00:00"
first_seen_at: "2026-10-23T19:12:22+00:00"
updated_at: "2026-10-25T05:35:21+00:00"
sources: [{"source": "statuspage", "url": "https://stspg.io/rw9m9n69q6tg", "first_seen_at": "2026-10-23T19:12:22+00:00"}]
---

# DigitalOcean: Let's Encrypt Outage Affecting Certificate Issuance and Managed Databases Operations

## Affected

- vendor:DigitalOcean affected ? fixed ?

## Timeline

- 2026-10-23T19:12:22+00:00 statuspage https://stspg.io/rw9m9n69q6tg

## From the sources

The upstream outage with Let's Encrypt has been resolved. Customers should now be able to issue Let's Encrypt certificates for Spaces, Load Balancers, and App Platform Custom Domains. Our Engineering team has also confirmed that stuck or delayed actions with Mongo, Advanced PG, and Advanced MySQL databases should complete normally now. 

We appreciate your patience. If you continue to experience any issues, please open a support ticket from within your account.

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