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// Incident Post-MortemDRN-B7B49E23

Anthropic outage on May 6, 2026

Minor severityResolved45 minAI Tools
Started · UTC
May 06, 04:51 PM
6d ago
Resolved · UTC
May 06, 05:36 PM
6d ago
Duration
45 min
End-to-end
Peak confidence
45.00
33 snapshots
// What happened

May 6, 16:51 UTCResolved - This incident has been resolved.May 6, 16:32 UTCMonitoring - A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.May 6, 15:54 UTCIdentified - The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.May 6, 15:29 UTCInvestigating - We are currently investigating this issue.

Deterministic readout · awaiting AI summary pass

// Timeline

  1. Status changed to Operational

    The stored readout moved to Operational with confidence 75.00.

  2. Incident detected

    Minor confidence crossed the incident threshold for Elevated errors across multiple models.

  3. Marked resolved

    The incident was closed after 45 min of observed impact.

  4. Peak confidence reached

    Confidence peaked at 75.00 while the service was marked Operational.

// Signals by source1 sources
  • Reachability

    Synthetic probes hit 100% success — 1858ms avg

    100%
// Aggregate evidence

Confidence scoring

45.00

The incident reached 45.00 peak confidence across 33 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 Wed, May 06, 2026, 05:36 PM UTC.

// 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 45 min. The stored report window does not show a preserved user-report spike.