Anthropic experienced a critical incident on March 19, 2026 affecting claude.ai and Claude API (api.anthropic.com) and 1 more component, lasting 16m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
claude.aiClaude API (api.anthropic.com)Claude Code
Update timeline
- investigating Mar 19, 2026, 03:59 PM UTC
We are currently investigating this issue.
- resolved Mar 19, 2026, 04:16 PM UTC
This incident started at 8:53 PT / 15:53 UTC and the errors have now returned to baseline since 9:14 PT / 16:14 UTC.