Anthropic incident

Degraded performance for Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5

Minor Resolved Upstream link ↗

Started

August 17, 2026 at 01:56 PM UTC

Duration

1h 32m

Resolved

August 17, 2026 at 03:29 PM UTC

Updates timeline

  1. Investigating

    We are investigating elevated errors on requests to Claude Opus 5. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

  2. Investigating

    Claude Opus 5 is operational. Claude Sonnet 5 is degraded. We are investigating.

  3. Monitoring

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  4. Resolved

    This incident has been resolved.

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