Is Anthropic API down?
Back watches the Anthropic API from your macOS menu bar and notifies you when it recovers.
What Back watches for Anthropic API
status.anthropic.com
This is the component that matters if you build on Claude rather than chat with it. Back tracks it apart from claude.ai because the two fail independently. An API incident can leave the web app untouched while your service breaks.
API outages show up as raised error rates rather than a clean stop, so the recovery point is hard to spot by hand. On Pro, Back makes a small real request before telling you it is back, so you do not redeploy into a half-recovered API.
When Anthropic API goes down, the ring in your menu bar turns red and Back tightens its checks to every 20 seconds. When it recovers you get one notification. “Anthropic API is back. You can continue working.” Nothing else. Outage alerts are off by default, so the message you get is the one you were waiting for.
Questions
Is Anthropic API down right now?
Back answers that from your menu bar rather than a browser tab. It reads the api.anthropic.com component on status.anthropic.com. If Anthropic API is down it checks every 20 seconds and notifies you as soon as it is usable again.
How will I know when Anthropic API is back up?
One notification: “Anthropic API is back. You can continue working.” No incident report, no buttons, nothing to dismiss. Outage alerts are off by default, so the only message you get is the one you were waiting for.
Does Back monitor anything other than Anthropic API?
Yes. Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Gemini, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and the Anthropic and OpenAI APIs. Back Free watches one service of your choosing. Back Pro watches all of them in the order you set.
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