Outage in Claude

Service disruption on Claude services

Resolved Major

August 16, 2026 - Started 3 days ago - Lasted 36 minutes
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Incident Report

Summary AI Generated

On August 16, 2026, Claude experienced a 36-minute major outage affecting authentication and performance across claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Cowork, the Claude API, and associated platforms. Users were unable to log in or use the service, receiving "temporarily unavailable" errors. A fix was deployed and the incident was fully resolved by 22:34 UTC.

We are investigating an issue with users authenticating to claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

Components affected

Claude claude.ai Claude api.anthropic.com Claude console.anthropic.com

Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )

RESOLVED 3 days ago - at 08/16/2026 10:34PM

The issue affecting claude.ai, platform.claude.com, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork has been resolved.

MONITORING 3 days ago - at 08/16/2026 10:22PM

A fix has been deployed for the issue affecting claude.ai, platform.claude.com, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork and we are monitoring for recovery.

INVESTIGATING 3 days ago - at 08/16/2026 10:02PM

We are investigating reports of degraded performance affecting claude.ai, platform.claude.com, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

INVESTIGATING 3 days ago - at 08/16/2026 09:58PM

We are investigating an issue with users authenticating to claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

source IsDown Service outage and capacity issues Reports started 8 minutes before official outage was reported

Users report website downtime, login failures, 'Claude at capacity' errors, and authentication issues. Indicates potential system overload and server problems.

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