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DNS service, Certificates and Managed MongoDB

Minor Impact Monitoring Ongoing May 14, 2026

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Monitoring
Our Engineering team has implemented a fix for the issue affecting our DNS service and are now seeing DNS record updates successfully propagate to the edge.

As a result, Let's Encrypt certificate issuance and Managed MongoDB provisioning (including scaling operations) should resume. We are currently monitoring the systems as they process the backlog of delayed requests. Affected MongoDB clusters and certificate requests should complete their provisioning automatically.

We will continue to m...
May 14, 2026 at 4:42 PM UTC
Investigating
Our engineering team continues to investigate an issue affecting our DNS service. At this time, DNS resolution remains functional; however, new changes to DNS records are currently not being reflected at the edge.

This issue is also impacting related services. Specifically, customers may be unable to create new Let's Encrypt certificates. Regarding Managed MongoDB, customers will be able to submit requests to create new clusters or scale existing ones, but the completion of the provisioning ...
May 14, 2026 at 3:52 PM UTC
Investigating
Our Engineering team is investigating an issue affecting our DNS service. At this time, DNS resolution remains functional but any changes to DNS records are not being reflected at the edge. Additionally, customers may be unable to create new Let's Encrypt certificates at this time. Our engineering team is actively working to identify the root cause and restore full functionality.

We apologize for any inconvenience, and we'll share more information as it becomes available.
May 14, 2026 at 1:57 PM UTC
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