Incident archive

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?

  1. August 4, 2026, 20:48 UTCinvestigatingT+0
  2. August 4, 2026, 21:04 UTCinvestigatingT+17 min
  3. 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 .