# What broke August 17 to August 23, 2026

- Incidents: 539; major outages: 17
- Downtime: 16d 10h across providers

## Days
- [Mon, Aug 17](https://down.guide/recaps/2026-08-17): 85 incidents, 5 major outages
- [Tue, Aug 18](https://down.guide/recaps/2026-08-18): 153 incidents, 3 major outages
- [Wed, Aug 19](https://down.guide/recaps/2026-08-19): 92 incidents, 2 major outages
- [Thu, Aug 20](https://down.guide/recaps/2026-08-20): 89 incidents, 4 major outages
- [Fri, Aug 21](https://down.guide/recaps/2026-08-21): 78 incidents, 3 major outages
- [Sat, Aug 22](https://down.guide/recaps/2026-08-22): 27 incidents, 0 major outages
- [Sun, Aug 23](https://down.guide/recaps/2026-08-23): 15 incidents, 0 major outages

## The Down Index
[The full table](https://down.guide/rankings/2026-W34), worst first.

- **GitHub Pages**: [Incident with GitHub.com](https://down.guide/github-pages/DWN-a2b1cd7233) (Major outage; lasted 7h 36m; started 2026-08-17 13:40 UTC; Git Operations, Webhooks, API Requests +5; us)
- **Railway**: [GitHub is experiencing elevated error rates](https://down.guide/railway/DWN-b3e7ecf6a8) (Major outage; lasted 2h 45m; started 2026-08-17 13:30 UTC; GitHub - Auto-Deploys, US East (Virginia, USA), US West (California, USA) +2; apac, eu, us)
- **Anthropic**: [Elevated errors on requests to multiple models](https://down.guide/anthropic/DWN-cae09f0754) (Partial outage; lasted 26m; started 2026-08-20 19:16 UTC; claude.ai, Claude API (api.anthropic.com), Claude Code +1)
- **Railway**: [Deployments and builds stopped (record added Nov 5)](https://down.guide/railway/DWN-25d64cf421) (Major outage; lasted 2h 15m; started 2026-08-18 22:45 UTC; US East (Virginia, USA), US West (California, USA), EU West (Amsterdam, Netherlands) +1; apac, eu, us)
- **GitHub**: [Intermittent failures creating agent tasks](https://down.guide/github/DWN-0ca901ec02) (Major outage; lasted 9h 54m; started 2026-08-20 14:43 UTC; us)
- **Anthropic**: [Degraded performance for multiple models](https://down.guide/anthropic/DWN-9492a0febd) (Degraded; lasted 2h 41m; started 2026-08-18 16:20 UTC; claude.ai, Claude API (api.anthropic.com), Claude Code +1)
- **Intercom**: [Issues with Shopify integration](https://down.guide/intercom/DWN-bee66127b7) (Partial outage; lasted 33m; started 2026-08-19 23:12 UTC)
- **Anthropic**: [Degraded performance for Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5](https://down.guide/anthropic/DWN-eb25a69e29) (Degraded; lasted 1h 33m; started 2026-08-17 13:56 UTC; claude.ai, Claude API (api.anthropic.com), Claude Code +1)
- **Anthropic**: [Degraded performance for Claude Opus 5 and Claude Haiku 4.5](https://down.guide/anthropic/DWN-6046803574) (Degraded; lasted 1h 20m; started 2026-08-19 09:42 UTC; claude.ai, Claude API (api.anthropic.com), Claude Code +1)
- **Maven Central (Sonatype)**: [repo1.maven.org is down](https://down.guide/maven-central/DWN-0b62d3a019) (Major outage; lasted 3h 21m; started 2026-08-21 06:50 UTC; CDN - repo1.maven.org)

## Other weeks
- [Previous week: Aug 10 to Aug 16, 2026](https://down.guide/recaps/2026-W33)
- [Next week: Aug 24 to Aug 30, 2026](https://down.guide/recaps/2026-W35)

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