Anthropic incident

Increased errors on Opus 4.6

Major Resolved View vendor source →

Anthropic experienced a major incident on March 18, 2026 affecting claude.ai and Claude Console (platform.claude.com) and 1 more component, lasting 1h 27m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Mar 18, 2026, 12:30 PM UTC
Resolved
Mar 18, 2026, 01:58 PM UTC
Duration
1h 27m
Detected by Pingoru
Mar 18, 2026, 12:30 PM UTC

Affected components

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

Update timeline

  1. investigating Mar 18, 2026, 12:30 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. monitoring Mar 18, 2026, 01:19 PM UTC

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

  3. monitoring Mar 18, 2026, 01:25 PM UTC

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

  4. resolved Mar 18, 2026, 01:58 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.