Anthropic incident
Elevated error rates on Claude Opus and Sonnet 4.6
Anthropic experienced a major incident on March 21, 2026 affecting claude.ai and Claude Console (platform.claude.com) and 1 more component, lasting 1h 35m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
claude.aiClaude Console (platform.claude.com)Claude API (api.anthropic.com)Claude Code
Update timeline
- investigating Mar 21, 2026, 12:07 AM UTC
We are currently investigating elevated error rates affecting Claude Opus 4.6. Our team is actively working to identify the root cause.
- identified Mar 21, 2026, 12:17 AM UTC
We have identified an issue resulting in elevated errors on both Claude Opus and Sonnet 4.6, and are working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible.
- identified Mar 21, 2026, 12:58 AM UTC
We have observed success rates return to normal for Claude Opus 4.6, and are working to fully resolve elevated errors for Claude Sonnet 4.6.
- resolved Mar 21, 2026, 01:42 AM UTC
This incident has been resolved.