Elevated errors on Claude.ai (including login issues for Claude Code)

Incident Report for Claude

Postmortem

Between 14:17 and 17:11 UTC, our primary application database experienced severely degraded I/O performance following a routine maintenance operation, causing slow or failed requests on Claude.ai and preventing new or refreshed sign-ins for Claude Code and the Console. API traffic via Claude Developer Platform was unaffected.

Posted Mar 11, 2026 - 17:56 UTC

Resolved

The incident is now resolved. To recap we had an incident starting at 07:17 PT / 14:17 UTC and the errors returned to baseline at 10:11 PT / 17:11 UTC.
Posted Mar 11, 2026 - 17:28 UTC

Monitoring

A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
Posted Mar 11, 2026 - 17:22 UTC

Update

We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
Posted Mar 11, 2026 - 17:22 UTC

Identified

The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
Posted Mar 11, 2026 - 17:19 UTC

Update

We're currently investigating issues with Claude Code and Claude.ai. Some users may be unable to log in, and others may experience slower than usual performance. The Claude API is not affected.
Posted Mar 11, 2026 - 15:44 UTC

Update

We are continuing to investigate this issue.
Posted Mar 11, 2026 - 15:27 UTC

Update

This is affecting the login/logout actions in Claude Code as well.
Posted Mar 11, 2026 - 14:47 UTC

Investigating

We are currently investigating this issue.
Posted Mar 11, 2026 - 14:44 UTC
This incident affected: claude.ai and Claude Code.