Claude 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 Claude's overall status around this incident. Smaller or regional incidents often leave a provider's overall status green.

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How often does Claude have incidents?

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