Resolved · lasted 6 h
Claude outage on August 20
Reports for Claude jumped to 445 an hour and stayed high for 6 h.
- Started
- 3:00 PM
- August 20, 2026 · UTC
- Back to normal
- 9:00 PM
- 6 h later
- Peak
- 445/hr
- 14× normal
- Anthropic’s incident
- 29 min
- Elevated errors on Google connectors
Reports during the outage
1:00 PM10:50 PM UTC
What Anthropic said
status.claude.comResolved6:32 – 7:01 PM · 29 min
Elevated errors on Google connectors
- Resolved · 7:01 PM
This issue has been resolved.
- Investigating · 6:32 PM
We are investigating elevated errors affecting Google connectors (Sheets, Docs, Slides, and Chat) and custom Google integrations on Claude.ai. Core functionality is not affected. We will provide an update as soon as possible.
Anthropic posted its first update 3 h 32 min after reports started rising.
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