Resolved · lasted 5 h
Claude outage on August 31
Reports for Claude jumped to 239 an hour and stayed high for 5 h.
- Started
- 4:00 PM
- August 31, 2026 · UTC
- Back to normal
- 9:00 PM
- 5 h later
- Peak
- 239/hr
- 7× normal
- Anthropic’s incident
- 29 min
- Degraded performance on claude.ai
Reports during the outage
2:00 PM10:50 PM UTC
What Anthropic said
status.claude.comResolved5:23 – 5:52 PM · 29 min
Degraded performance on claude.ai
- Resolved · 5:52 PM
This issue has been resolved.
- Monitoring · 5:32 PM
We have seen success rates return to normal for requests on Claude.ai and are monitoring closely.
- Investigating · 5:23 PM
We are investigating reports of elevated errors affecting chats on claude.ai. We will provide an update as soon as possible.
Anthropic posted its first update 1 h 23 min after reports started rising.
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