Incident archive

Claude outage August 31, 2026

Degraded performance on claude.ai and Claude Code

Claude claude.ai was degraded for 1 h 14 min on August 31, 2026.

Claude recorded a minor-impact incident affecting claude.ai, Claude Code on August 31, 2026. It ran for 1 h 14 min — 7 min longer than the archive median of 1 h 7 min.

Started
August 31, 2026, 19:21 UTC
Resolved
August 31, 2026, 20:36 UTC
Duration
1 h 14 min
Impact
Minor

What was affected?

How long did it last?

  1. August 31, 2026, 19:21 UTCinvestigatingT+0
  2. August 31, 2026, 20:36 UTCresolvedT+1 h 14 min

Has this happened before?

This was incident 26 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 20 other recorded incidents in the 30 days before this one started. The previous incident touching claude.ai started on August 31, 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 .