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// Incident Post-MortemDRN-35A4213A

Anthropic outage on July 16, 2026

Minor severityResolved5h 16mAI Tools
Started · UTC
Jul 16, 08:53 AM
47h ago
Resolved · UTC
Jul 16, 02:09 PM
42h ago
Duration
5h 16m
End-to-end
Peak confidence
45.00
0 snapshots
// User impact

Anthropic users likely saw failed connections, degraded availability, or session instability for this AI Tools service. The incident reached Minor severity and lasted 5h 16m. The stored report window does not show a preserved user-report spike.

// What happened

Anthropic appears to be operating normally based on current signals. DNS is no recent DNS check, user reports are quiet.

Cached · Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 02:10 PM UTC · scope: this incident

// Timeline

  1. Incident detected

    Minor confidence crossed the incident threshold for Anthropic: elevated errors on Claude Sonnet 5.

  2. Marked resolved

    The incident was closed after 5h 16m of observed impact.

// Signals by source0 sources

No per-source signal payloads were preserved in this incident's snapshot window.

// Aggregate evidence

Confidence scoring

45.00

The incident reached 45.00 peak confidence across available stored status snapshots.

User reports

0 / 15m

No elevated user-report volume was preserved in the incident window snapshots.

Status samples

0 affected

The incident row exists, but the bounded snapshot window does not include affected status samples.

Recovery signal

Resolved

Recovery was recorded at Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 02:09 PM UTC.