Degraded
Claude outage on August 17, 2026: what happened and how long it lasted
On August 17, 2026, Claude (Anthropic) had degraded performance between 13:56 and 15:29 UTC, about 1.5 h in total. The vendor posted 1 incident.
Timeline (UTC)
- OfficialOfficial incident posted: Degraded performance for Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5
- OfficialOfficially resolved: Degraded performance for Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5
Hourly measurements (UTC)
00:0012:0023:00
Was Claude down on August 17, 2026?
On August 17, 2026, Claude (Anthropic) had degraded performance between 13:56 and 15:29 UTC, about 1.5 h in total. The vendor posted 1 incident.
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