Claude Status · History · Incident #4698

RESOLVED

Elevated errors for Claude Opus 4.8

Major · Started Jun 16, 2026 · 8:50 PM

⚡ Pulsetic detected this 200 minutes before Claude acknowledged it

Duration

1h 12m
Severity

Major
Detection lead

200 min
User reports

Peak 6/hr

Summary

Elevated errors for Claude Opus 4.8

This issue has been resolved. We saw elevated errors on requests to Claude Opus 4.8 between 1:45pm PT / 20:45 UTC and 1:58pm PT / 20:58 UTC.

Started

Jun 16, 2026 · 8:50 PM
Resolved

Jun 16, 2026 · 10:02 PM
Duration

1h 12m
Severity

Major

Detection lead

Pulsetic caught this 200 minutes early

Pulsetic detected

~200 min before acknowledgement

User reports and synthetic probes crossed the detection threshold
Claude acknowledged

Jun 16, 2026 · 8:50 PM

Via official status page

Event timeline

How this incident unfolded

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Detected by Pulsetic
Jun 16 · 5:30 PM Pulsetic

User reports and synthetic probes crossed the detection threshold — 200 min before the official acknowledgement.
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Investigating
Jun 16 · 8:50 PM Claude

We are investigating elevated errors on requests to Claude Opus 4.8. We will provide an update as soon as possible.
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Monitoring
Jun 16 · 9:01 PM Claude

We have resolved the issue resulting in elevated errors on requests to Claude Opus 4.8, and are currently monitoring closely to prevent any further issues.
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Resolved
Jun 16 · 10:02 PM Claude

This issue has been resolved. We saw elevated errors on requests to Claude Opus 4.8 between 1:45pm PT / 20:45 UTC and 1:58pm PT / 20:58 UTC.

User reports · incident window

Report volume over time

Hourly report count. Red bars mark the incident window.

Peak: 6 reports/hr

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