Unable to issue Digicert certificate in Plesk: Issuing the certificate. The order is taking too long to process. It seems that something went wrong

Symptoms

• The following error is displayed when trying to issue a Digicert certificate for a domain:

PLESK_INFO: Issuing the certificate. The order is taking too long to process. It seems that something went wrong. Please contact your administrator or Plesk support.

• Errors like below can be found in /var/log/panel.log (with enabled Plesk debug mode):

PLESK_INFO: [stream:protected] => Digicert\Api\Stream Object
( [body:Digicert\Api\Stream:private] =>
{"order_id":"123456789","order_status":"pending","order_name_scope":"fqdn","order_dcv_method":"http-token","dns_name_validations":[{"status":"approved","dns_names":["example.com"],"base_domain":"example.com"},{"status":"approved","dns_names":["www.example.com"],"base_domain":"example.com"}]}
[2022-11-24 13:13:34.137] 123381:637f5fe96dc8d ERR [extension/sslit] Error happened while certificate processing : The order is taking too long to process. It seems that something went wrong. Please contact your administrator or Plesk support.
[2022-11-24 13:13:34.138] 123381:637f5fe96dc8d INFO [extension/sslit] Check notifications which already sent in interval since 1669205614 to 1669292014.

Cause

DNS CAA record is absent for the domain example.com

Resolution

Add the digicert.com CAA record for the example.com domain: How to add a CAA DNS record on a domain in Plesk?

An example of CAA records may be found in the following Digicert documentation article: https://docs.digicert.com/en/certcentral/manage-certificates/dns-caa-resource-record-check.html