Claude Is Down, Again (status.claude.com)

Anthropic’s Claude is experiencing another outage marked by elevated API error rates, and the company is pushing an incident-subscription option so developers can get real-time updates by email and SMS. Users can sign up to receive email notifications when incidents are updated and text-message alerts whenever Claude creates or resolves an incident, giving teams immediate visibility into service disruptions and status changes. The recurrence of errors is significant for teams that embed Claude in production systems: elevated API error rates can cascade into failed user flows, degraded automation, and billing anomalies. Technically, this underscores the need for robust client-side resilience — circuit breakers, exponential backoff and retry policies, request timeouts, idempotency, and graceful fallbacks (including multi-model routing or local LLMs). Operationally, subscribing to incident feeds improves response coordination, but engineering teams should also augment vendor notifications with their own observability (request metrics, error budgets, and alerts) and contingency plans to reduce downtime exposure and preserve user experience.