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Claude incident: Elevated errors on Claude Sonnet 5

Claude reported this minor-impact incident on its official status page on Aug 4, 2026, 06:16 UTC. It was resolved after 39 min.

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Aug 4, 2026, 06:16 UTC
started
Aug 4, 2026, 06:55 UTC
resolved
39 min
duration
Minor
impact

Affected components

  • Claude API (api.anthropic.com)
  • Claude Code
  • Claude Console (platform.claude.com)
  • claude.ai
  1. resolvedAug 4, 2026, 06:55 UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

  2. monitoringAug 4, 2026, 06:28 UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. investigatingAug 4, 2026, 06:16 UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

What APIStatus.watch saw

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

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Claude reported 85 incidents in the last 90 days, 32 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 1h 7m. See Claude's uptime and incident history

Claude incident on Aug 4, 2026: Elevated errors on Claude Sonnet 5 · APIStatus.watch