There were too many requests of a given type :: Error creating new order :: too many currently pending authorizations

Unable to create a new certificate getting below error. please help me to resolve the isssue.

Certificate Creation Failed For tc-connect.geo-solutions.it - 2021Aug11-08h-16m-41s

Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Plugins selected: Authenticator apache, Installer apache
Requesting a certificate for tc-connect.geo-solutions.it
An unexpected error occurred:
There were too many requests of a given type :: Error creating new order :: too many currently pending authorizations: see Rate Limits - Let's Encrypt
Please see the logfiles in /var/log/letsencrypt for more details.

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It looks like you were using Certbot - Generally this is an indication that Certbot encountered a lot of failures running. There's some advice on this particular rate limit on our rate limits page:

This hasn't been much of an issue of late because of Automatic recycling of pending authorizations , which usually works, but for some reason must not be in your case.

Once upon a time there was a project - now outdated - that would scan Certbot logs for abandoned pending authzs, called LE_FIND_PENDING_AUTHZ, which is still available on Github but hasn't been updated for ACMEv2. If you're feeling technical, it might be a blueprint for digging up data too.

I'm not really sure what else can help; hopefully someone else has an idea!

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@jcjones

There's this tool on Let's Debug:

https://tools.letsdebug.net/clear-authz

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If you need help, please post the log file here for our review.

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