503RADARINCIDENT ARCHIVEMETHODOLOGY
RESOLVED

Anthropic outage — August 31, 2026

Degraded performance on claude.ai and Claude Code

Anthropic’s Claude.ai was disrupted for 1h 33m on August 31, 2026.

Key facts

DetectedAugust 31, 2026 · 19:21 UTC
Confirmed19:21 UTC
Resolved20:54 UTC
Duration1h 33m
ServiceClaude.ai
Official recordhttps://stspg.io/gny7dn3k231b

Timeline

  1. 19:21Z

    Detected · Signal

    2 crowd signals for Claude.ai on ANTHROPIC crossed the signal threshold.
  2. 19:21Z

    Confirmed · Official

    An official ANTHROPIC status-page notice corroborated the event the same cycle.
  3. 20:54Z

    Resolved

    Signal volume fell back below the threshold; the event was closed.

Evidence

Official status feeddegraded (changed 19:21 UTC)
Anomaly score+0.24σ above this cell's own baseline
Engine confidence95%

Outage-related signals per hour over the live window, oldest → newest (peak 1).

How this was detected

1 independent evidence class for claude-ai on ANTHROPIC. 2 crowd reports across bluesky (single platform — not corroborating), z=+0.2σ vs the cell baseline. Official notice confirms it.