Incident archive

Claude outage July 21, 2026

Elevated errors across Fable 5

Claude claude.ai was degraded for 48 min on July 21, 2026.

Claude recorded a minor-impact incident affecting claude.ai, Claude Console (platform.claude.com), Claude API (api.anthropic.com), Claude Code, Claude Cowork on July 21, 2026. It ran for 48 min — 19 min shorter than the archive median of 1 h 7 min.

Started
July 21, 2026, 11:19 UTC
Resolved
July 21, 2026, 12:07 UTC
Duration
48 min
Impact
Minor

What was affected?

How long did it last?

  1. July 21, 2026, 11:19 UTCinvestigatingT+0
  2. July 21, 2026, 11:24 UTCinvestigatingT+5 min
  3. July 21, 2026, 11:28 UTCidentifiedT+9 min
  4. July 21, 2026, 11:47 UTCmonitoringT+28 min
  5. July 21, 2026, 12:07 UTCresolvedT+48 min

Has this happened before?

This was incident 17 of 38 recorded in July 2026, totalling 113 h of reported disruption across all Claude components that month. claude.ai was affected by 13 other recorded incidents in the 30 days before this one started. The previous incident touching claude.ai started on July 21, 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 .