Anthropic incident

Elevated errors across Claude Models

Major Resolved View vendor source →

Anthropic experienced a major incident on May 8, 2026 affecting claude.ai and Claude Console (platform.claude.com) and 1 more component, lasting 1h 51m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
May 08, 2026, 09:49 AM UTC
Resolved
May 08, 2026, 11:40 AM UTC
Duration
1h 51m
Detected by Pingoru
May 08, 2026, 09:49 AM UTC

Affected components

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

Update timeline

  1. investigating May 08, 2026, 09:49 AM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. identified May 08, 2026, 10:26 AM UTC

    We have identified the cause and a fix is being rolled out. As of 10:22 UTC, the remaining impact is limited to Claude Opus 4.1 and Fast Mode for Claude Opus 4.6.

  3. monitoring May 08, 2026, 11:32 AM UTC

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

  4. resolved May 08, 2026, 11:40 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.