Anthropic incident

Elevated error rates on requests to multiple models

Major Resolved View vendor source →

Anthropic experienced a major incident on May 16, 2026 affecting claude.ai and Claude Console (platform.claude.com) and 1 more component, lasting 15m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
May 16, 2026, 06:08 PM UTC
Resolved
May 16, 2026, 06:24 PM UTC
Duration
15m
Detected by Pingoru
May 16, 2026, 06:08 PM UTC

Affected components

claude.aiClaude Console (platform.claude.com)Claude API (api.anthropic.com)Claude CodeClaude Cowork

Update timeline

  1. investigating May 16, 2026, 06:08 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. monitoring May 16, 2026, 06:18 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. resolved May 16, 2026, 06:24 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.