Incident report · read from Anthropic's status page

Anthropic incident: Degraded performance on claude.ai and Claude Code

Resolved after 1 h 14 m (31 Aug 2026, 19:21–20:36 UTC), impact minor, affecting claude.ai and Claude Code.

Timeline

1. 31 Aug 2026 at 19:21 UTC investigating

   We are investigating reports of degraded performance affecting Claude in Slack, Claude Code on the web, and Code Review. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

2. 31 Aug 2026 at 20:36 UTC resolved

   The issue affecting Claude Code has been resolved. Impact occurred from 16∶55 to 19∶16 UTC.

Affected components

• claude.ai: degraded for 1 h 14 m
• Claude Code: degraded for 1 h 14 m

Source

Anthropic's own report of this incident, on Anthropic's status page. This page is a record of Anthropic's own report; where the two disagree, theirs is right.

Last checked 8 Sep 2026 at 15:07 UTC.

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