Claude outage July 17, 2026
Elevated errors across Fable 5
Claude claude.ai was down for 1 h 11 min on July 17, 2026.
Claude recorded a major-impact incident affecting claude.ai, Claude API (api.anthropic.com), Claude Code, Claude Cowork on July 17, 2026. It ran for 1 h 11 min — 4 min longer than the archive median of 1 h 7 min.
- Started
- July 17, 2026, 18:32 UTC
- Resolved
- July 17, 2026, 19:43 UTC
- Duration
- 1 h 11 min
- Impact
- Major
What was affected?
How long did it last?
- July 17, 2026, 18:32 UTCinvestigatingT+0
- July 17, 2026, 18:36 UTCinvestigatingT+4 min
- July 17, 2026, 18:48 UTCmonitoringT+16 min
- July 17, 2026, 19:43 UTCresolvedT+1 h 11 min
Has this happened before?
This was incident 10 of 38 recorded in July 2026, totalling 113 h of reported disruption across all Claude components that month. claude.ai was affected by 8 other recorded incidents in the 30 days before this one started. The previous incident touching claude.ai started on July 17, 2026. These comparisons are drawn from our archive, which starts on July 14, 2026. See the full outage history.
Summarized by Claude Network from Claude Status. Last verified .