Anthropic incident

Service disruption on Claude services

Major Resolved View vendor source →

Anthropic experienced a major incident on August 16, 2026 affecting claude.ai and Claude Console (platform.claude.com) and 1 more component, lasting 22m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Aug 16, 2026, 10:07 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 16, 2026, 10:29 PM UTC
Duration
22m
Detected by Pingoru
Aug 16, 2026, 10:07 PM UTC

Affected components

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

Update timeline

  1. investigating Aug 16, 2026, 10:07 PM UTC

    We are investigating reports of degraded performance affecting claude.ai and platform.claude.com. We will provide an update as soon as possible.