Anthropic incident: Degraded performance on claude.ai and Claude Code

Affected components

• Claude Code
• claude.ai

1. resolvedAug 31, 2026, 20:36 UTC

   The issue affecting Claude Code has been resolved. Impact occurred from 16∶55 to 19∶16 UTC.

2. investigatingAug 31, 2026, 19:21 UTC

   We are investigating reports of degraded performance affecting Claude in Slack, Claude Code on the web, and Code Review. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

What APIStatus.watch saw

Our 5-minute checks didn't record a change in Anthropic's overall status around this incident. Smaller or regional incidents often leave a provider's overall status green.

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Anthropic reported 47 incidents in the last 90 days, 21 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 1h 4m. See Anthropic's uptime and incident history