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Claude Outage History

Every past Claude outage tracked by IsDown, with detection times, duration, and resolution details.

There were 183 Claude outages since October 2025. The 183 outages from the last 12 months are summarized below, with incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Minor March 31, 2026

March 2026: Elevated errors on Claude Opus 4.6

Detected Mar 31, 2026 4:54 AM EDT · Resolved Mar 31, 2026 5:47 AM EDT · Duration about 1 hour

Claude Opus 4.6 experienced elevated error rates starting at 1:33 PT, affecting both claude.ai and api.anthropic.com services. Error rates returned to baseline levels at 2:19 PT, and the incident was fully resolved after 53 minutes of impact.

Major March 28, 2026

March 2026: Dispatch sessions not responding in Claude Desktop

Detected Mar 28, 2026 8:53 PM EDT · Resolved Mar 29, 2026 12:46 AM EDT · Duration about 4 hours

Claude Desktop version 1.1.9310 had a major issue where Dispatch sessions stopped responding - messages were received and processed but replies did not appear in conversations, while standard Cowork sessions remained unaffected. The incident lasted 3.9 hours and was resolved by fixing the underlying issue that prevented agents from sending responses and releasing an updated desktop app version 1.1.9493.

Major March 27, 2026

March 2026: Elevated error rates on Opus 4.6

Detected Mar 27, 2026 3:01 AM EDT · Resolved Mar 27, 2026 12:47 PM EDT · Duration about 10 hours

Claude's Opus 4.6 model experienced elevated error rates for 9.8 hours, affecting claude.ai, console.anthropic.com, and api.anthropic.com. During the incident, Sonnet 4.6 also temporarily showed elevated errors but was restored to normal operation after about 7 hours. The main issue was mitigated and error rates returned to baseline levels.

Major March 26, 2026

March 2026: Elevated errors for MCP calls

Detected Mar 26, 2026 6:28 PM EDT · Resolved Mar 26, 2026 6:44 PM EDT · Duration 16 minutes

Claude experienced elevated errors for MCP (Model Context Protocol) calls, affecting the claude.ai service for 16 minutes. Users reported that voice functionality was unavailable during this period. The incident was investigated and resolved within the same timeframe.

Major March 26, 2026

March 2026: Elevated errors on Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6

Detected Mar 26, 2026 6:00 PM EDT · Resolved Mar 26, 2026 8:52 PM EDT · Duration about 3 hours

Claude experienced elevated errors affecting Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 models for 2.9 hours, impacting claude.ai, the developer console, and API endpoints. Users reported issues including unavailable voice options during the incident. The issue was identified as causing a low rate of errors and was fully resolved.

Major March 25, 2026

March 2026: Elevated errors on Claude Opus 4.6

Detected Mar 25, 2026 11:05 AM EDT · Resolved Mar 25, 2026 8:15 PM EDT · Duration about 9 hours

Claude Opus 4.6 experienced elevated errors for 9.2 hours, affecting claude.ai, console.anthropic.com, and api.anthropic.com. The service experienced multiple waves of issues throughout the incident period, with errors recurring after initial mitigation attempts. The incident was fully resolved after implementing a fix and monitoring period.

Major March 25, 2026

March 2026: Elevated Errors on claude.ai

Detected Mar 25, 2026 9:48 AM EDT · Resolved Mar 25, 2026 11:45 AM EDT · Duration about 2 hours

Claude experienced elevated errors for 2 hours affecting claude.ai, preventing users from accessing the service across web, mobile, and desktop applications. Users consistently received "This isn't working right now. You can try again later" error messages, with additional issues including login failures, 500 errors, slow chat responses, and problems with project chats and file uploads. The issue was identified and resolved with a fix implementation after monitoring for recovery.

Minor March 25, 2026

March 2026: Elevated errors on Claude Opus 4.6

Detected Mar 25, 2026 5:37 AM EDT · Resolved Mar 25, 2026 9:14 AM EDT · Duration about 4 hours

Claude Opus 4.6 experienced elevated errors for 3.6 hours, affecting claude.ai, console.anthropic.com, and api.anthropic.com. Users reported continuous server downtime during the incident. The issue was resolved after implementing a fix and monitoring the results.

Minor March 23, 2026

March 2026: Elevated errors on Claude.ai [retroactive]

Detected Mar 23, 2026 1:07 PM EDT · Resolved Mar 23, 2026 1:10 PM EDT · Duration 4 minutes

Between 9:10 PT and 9:26 PT, users experienced an elevated rate of errors when using Claude.ai, while the Claude API remained unaffected. The incident lasted approximately 16 minutes and has been resolved.

Major March 22, 2026

March 2026: Claude.ai and Claude login down

Detected Mar 22, 2026 2:44 PM EDT · Resolved Mar 22, 2026 2:52 PM EDT · Duration 8 minutes

Claude experienced a major service incident that prevented users from logging into both claude.ai and the Claude Console (platform.claude.com). The authentication issue affected user access to these platforms for approximately 8 minutes before a mitigation was applied and logins returned to normal. The incident was fully resolved with authentication services restored across all affected components.