Claude outage August 16, 2026
Service disruption on Claude services
Claude claude.ai was down for 36 min on August 16, 2026.
Claude recorded a critical-impact incident affecting claude.ai, Claude Console (platform.claude.com), Claude API (api.anthropic.com), Claude Code, Claude Cowork on August 16, 2026. It ran for 36 min — 31 min shorter than the archive median of 1 h 7 min.
- Started
- August 16, 2026, 21:58 UTC
- Resolved
- August 16, 2026, 22:34 UTC
- Duration
- 36 min
- Impact
- Critical
What was affected?
How long did it last?
- August 16, 2026, 21:58 UTCinvestigatingT+0
- August 16, 2026, 22:02 UTCinvestigatingT+3 min
- August 16, 2026, 22:22 UTCmonitoringT+24 min
- August 16, 2026, 22:34 UTCresolvedT+36 min
Has this happened before?
This was incident 14 of 26 recorded in August 2026, totalling 38 h 15 min of reported disruption across all Claude components that month. claude.ai was affected by 30 other recorded incidents in the 30 days before this one started. The previous incident touching claude.ai started on August 14, 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 .