Anthropic incident: Degraded performance on claude.ai

Affected components

• claude.ai

1. resolvedAug 31, 2026, 17:52 UTC

   This issue has been resolved.

2. monitoringAug 31, 2026, 17:32 UTC

   We have seen success rates return to normal for requests on Claude.ai and are monitoring closely.

3. investigatingAug 31, 2026, 17:23 UTC

   We are investigating reports of elevated errors affecting chats on claude.ai. 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.

Other services with incidents at the same time

Overlapping incidents aren't necessarily related.

• Snowflake: INC20000188Critical · Aug 31, 2026, 17:20 UTC
• Render: Service instability in SingaporeMajor · Aug 31, 2026, 15:47 UTC
• Supabase: Project Creation FailuresMajor · Aug 31, 2026, 16:28 UTC
• OVHcloud: [GRA5/GRA7/GRA9/GRA11][Compute - Instance] - Compute Instance Incident NotificationMajor · Aug 31, 2026, 17:09 UTC
• OVHcloud: [EU-SOUTH-MIL][Containers & Orchestration] - Managed Private Registry incident notificationMinor · Aug 26, 2026, 15:00 UTC
• Snowflake: INC20000150Minor · Aug 28, 2026, 00:07 UTC
• Shippo: Elevated error rate on DHL Express label generationMinor · Aug 28, 2026, 19:39 UTC
• Snyk: Partial Broker Service DegradationMinor · Aug 30, 2026, 14:32 UTC
• Mailgun: Event Log Delays in US RegionMinor · Aug 31, 2026, 14:47 UTC

How often does Anthropic have incidents?

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