Anthropic incident

Elevated errors for Claude Opus 4.7

Major Resolved View vendor source →

Anthropic experienced a major incident on May 18, 2026 affecting claude.ai and Claude Console (platform.claude.com) and 1 more component, lasting 8m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
May 18, 2026, 10:10 PM UTC
Resolved
May 18, 2026, 10:19 PM UTC
Duration
8m
Detected by Pingoru
May 18, 2026, 10:10 PM UTC

Affected components

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

Update timeline

  1. investigating May 18, 2026, 10:10 PM UTC

    We are investigating elevated errors on requests to Claude Opus 4.7. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

  2. resolved May 18, 2026, 10:19 PM UTC

    The issue affecting Claude services has been resolved. Impact occurred from 21:47 to 22:18 UTC.