Claude outage August 17, 2026
Degraded performance for Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5
Claude claude.ai was degraded for 1 h 33 min on August 17, 2026.
Claude recorded a minor-impact incident affecting claude.ai, Claude API (api.anthropic.com), Claude Code, Claude Cowork on August 17, 2026. It ran for 1 h 33 min — 26 min longer than the archive median of 1 h 7 min.
- Started
- August 17, 2026, 13:56 UTC
- Resolved
- August 17, 2026, 15:29 UTC
- Duration
- 1 h 33 min
- Impact
- Minor
What was affected?
How long did it last?
- August 17, 2026, 13:56 UTCinvestigatingT+0
- August 17, 2026, 14:25 UTCinvestigatingT+29 min
- August 17, 2026, 14:39 UTCmonitoringT+43 min
- August 17, 2026, 15:29 UTCresolvedT+1 h 33 min
Has this happened before?
This was incident 16 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 32 other recorded incidents in the 30 days before this one started. The previous incident touching claude.ai started on August 16, 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 .