Minor impactResolvedAI/ML

Anthropic incident: Elevated errors affecting the Gmail connector

Anthropic reported this minor-impact incident on its official status page on Oct 28, 2026, 03:59 UTC. It was resolved after 1h 49m.

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Oct 28, 2026, 03:59 UTC
started
Oct 28, 2026, 05:48 UTC
resolved
1h 49m
duration
Minor
impact

Affected components

  • Claude Code
  • Claude Cowork
  • claude.ai

Timeline

updates from Anthropic's status page ↗
  1. resolvedOct 28, 2026, 05:48 UTC

    The issue affecting the Gmail connector on claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork has been resolved. Impact occurred from 16:00 PT / 23:00 UTC on October 27 to 22:29 PT on October 27 / 05:29 UTC on October 28.

  2. investigatingOct 28, 2026, 04:00 UTC

    We are investigating elevated errors when searching and reading email with the Gmail connector. This issue does not affect other connectors.

  3. investigatingOct 28, 2026, 03:59 UTC

    We are investigating elevated errors when searching and reading email with the Gmail connector. This issue does not affect other connectors. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

What APIStatus.watch saw

  • Oct 28, 2026, 04:04 UTCoperational → degraded
  • Oct 28, 2026, 05:51 UTCdegraded → operational

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How often does Anthropic have incidents?

Anthropic reported 45 incidents in the last 90 days, 26 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 1h 13m. See Anthropic's uptime and incident history

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