Claude outage August 4, 2026
Elevated errors across many models
Claude services was down for 1 h 11 min on August 4, 2026.
Claude recorded a major-impact incident affecting Claude services on August 4, 2026. It ran for 1 h 11 min — 4 min longer than the archive median of 1 h 7 min.
- Started
- August 4, 2026, 20:48 UTC
- Resolved
- August 4, 2026, 21:59 UTC
- Duration
- 1 h 11 min
- Impact
- Major
How long did it last?
- August 4, 2026, 20:48 UTCinvestigatingT+0
- August 4, 2026, 21:04 UTCinvestigatingT+17 min
- August 4, 2026, 21:59 UTCresolvedT+1 h 11 min
Has this happened before?
This was incident 5 of 26 recorded in August 2026, totalling 38 h 15 min of reported disruption across all Claude components that month. Across the 73 resolved incidents in the archive, the median duration is 1 h 7 min; this one lasted 1 h 11 min. 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 .