Anthropic experienced a minor incident on May 4, 2026 affecting claude.ai and Claude API (api.anthropic.com) and 1 more component, lasting 1h 39m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
claude.aiClaude API (api.anthropic.com)Claude Code
Update timeline
- investigating May 04, 2026, 08:09 AM UTC
We are currently investigating this issue.
- investigating May 04, 2026, 08:09 AM UTC
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
- identified May 04, 2026, 08:19 AM UTC
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
- identified May 04, 2026, 09:14 AM UTC
We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
- monitoring May 04, 2026, 09:23 AM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- resolved May 04, 2026, 09:49 AM UTC
This incident has been resolved.