Thousands of users reported issues with Anthropic's Claude on Monday, with outage tracker DownDetector logging nearly 6,000 reports at the peak. Thousands of Claude users are reporting issues with Anthropic's AI chatbot on Monday afternoon, per Down Detector, a platform that tracks such outages based on users' reports. As many as 6,000 people reported problems with the Claude at the peak of Monday's outage.Representational image. (REUTERS/Representational)The graph on Down Detector showed that the outage started around 2:48pm EDT on Monday, peaking around 3:18pm EDT with around 5,500 reports. By 3:46pm EDT, however, the number of reports had fallen to around 500.Thus, the outage lasted for roughly one hour on Monday afternoon. Below is the graph of users reporting outages with Claude on Monday afternoon.Nearly 5,500 people reported issues with Claude Mnday. (Down Detector)On DownDetector, 50% of users reported problems with Clause chat, 33% with the Claude app, while 12% complained of issues with the website of Claude.This story is being updated.Shamik is a journalist covering the United States for Hindustan Times. He has more than four years of experience reporting on US politics, sports, and major breaking stories across fast-moving cycles.