Anthropic incident

Service disruption on Claude services

Critical Resolved View vendor source →

Anthropic experienced a critical incident on August 16, 2026 affecting claude.ai and Claude Console (platform.claude.com) and 1 more component, lasting 35m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Aug 16, 2026, 09:58 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 16, 2026, 10:34 PM UTC
Duration
35m
Detected by Pingoru
Aug 16, 2026, 09:58 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, 09:58 PM UTC

    We are investigating an issue with users authenticating to claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

  2. investigating Aug 16, 2026, 10:02 PM UTC

    We are investigating reports of degraded performance affecting claude.ai, platform.claude.com, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

  3. monitoring Aug 16, 2026, 10:22 PM UTC

    A fix has been deployed for the issue affecting claude.ai, platform.claude.com, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork and we are monitoring for recovery.

  4. resolved Aug 16, 2026, 10:34 PM UTC

    The issue affecting claude.ai, platform.claude.com, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork has been resolved.