Claude Code outage on August 31, 2026: Degraded performance on claude.ai and Claude Code
Claude reported an incident affecting Claude Code for 1 hour 14 minutes on 31 August 2026, from 19:21 to 20:36 UTC.
Resolved
Official incident reported by Claude
- Started
- 19:21
- 31 Aug 2026 UTC
- Resolved
- 20:36
- 31 Aug 2026 UTC
- Duration
- 1h 14m
- 1 hour 14 minutes
- Impact
- Minor
- as rated by Claude
- Updates
- 2
- posted by Claude
Timeline
All times UTC.
Official incident from Claude
Degraded performance on claude.ai and Claude Code
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Official
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.
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Official
Resolved
The issue affecting Claude Code has been resolved. Impact occurred from 16∶55 to 19∶16 UTC.
"Official" rows are quoted from Claude's public status page, status.claude.com. Very long posts are shortened.
What our checkpoints saw
HostTracker's checkpoints, which test api.anthropic.com from several locations, recorded no outage of 5 minutes or longer during this incident. A provider can report a problem that affects only some features, regions or accounts, which a check of the main address does not see. The live Claude Code status shows what our checks see right now.
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