Incident archive

Claude outage August 28, 2026

Elevated errors on Claude Code and Claude Cowork

Claude Claude Code was down for 2 h 59 min on August 28, 2026.

Claude recorded a major-impact incident affecting Claude Code, Claude Cowork on August 28, 2026. It ran for 2 h 59 min — 2.7× the archive median of 1 h 7 min.

Started
August 28, 2026, 17:22 UTC
Resolved
August 28, 2026, 20:21 UTC
Duration
2 h 59 min
Impact
Major

What was affected?

How long did it last?

  1. August 28, 2026, 17:22 UTCidentifiedT+0
  2. August 28, 2026, 18:21 UTCmonitoringT+59 min
  3. August 28, 2026, 20:21 UTCresolvedT+2 h 59 min

Has this happened before?

This was incident 24 of 26 recorded in August 2026, totalling 38 h 15 min of reported disruption across all Claude components that month. Claude Code was affected by 21 other recorded incidents in the 30 days before this one started. The previous incident touching Claude Code started on August 24, 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 .