Facebook Outage History

Facebook's Meta Audience Network experienced a 6-hour outage affecting revenue reporting functionality. The incident caused disruptions to advertisers' ability to access accurate reporting data for their campaigns. The issue was resolved after Facebook's team worked to restore normal reporting services.

WhatsApp Business API's Marketing Messages API experienced a major outage lasting 10.6 hours, causing high disruptions to webhook delivery and media message sending. The outage began at 11:30 AM SGT on May 19th and was fully resolved by 6:08 AM the following day. Facebook's engineering teams investigated and restored all services, apologizing for the inconvenience caused to businesses relying on the platform.

Facebook's Messenger Platform experienced high disruptions affecting webhook delivery and sending media messages through the Messenger API, starting at 11:30 am SGT on May 19th. The outage impacted developers and businesses relying on the Messenger Platform for automated messaging and media sharing functionality. Engineering teams investigated and resolved the issue within 19 minutes.

WhatsApp Business Cloud API experienced a major outage lasting 11.7 hours, with high disruptions affecting webhook delivery and media message sending starting at 11:30 AM SGT on May 19th. The service has been fully restored and recovered from the outage.

Facebook's Meta Business Suite Inbox tool experienced an outage that disrupted message sending functionality for 6.7 hours. The service was in recovery mode with features being gradually restored. Facebook apologized for the inconvenience caused by the messaging disruptions.

Facebook experienced a major outage affecting WhatsApp Business API coexistence onboarding functionality for 8.6 hours. The disruption prevented new users from completing the onboarding process for WhatsApp Business API coexistence features. Engineering teams investigated and resolved the issue, though specific resolution details were not provided in the incident report.

Facebook Ads Manager experienced an outage affecting ad delivery for 3.3 hours. The issue disrupted advertising campaigns and their performance across the platform. Engineering teams resolved the delivery problems after actively working to restore normal service.

Facebook's Ad Library Report experienced a major outage lasting approximately 94 hours. The service disruption affected users' ability to access advertising transparency data through the Ad Library Report feature. Facebook's teams worked to resolve the issue during this extended outage period.

Facebook's Meta Secure Research Environment experienced a major outage affecting data transparency services for 76.2 hours. The company acknowledged the disruption and deployed teams to resolve the issue. The outage was classified as having high disruptions to the research platform's functionality.

WhatsApp Business API Cloud service experienced disruptions that prevented users from sending messages for approximately 1.2 hours on April 30th, starting at 3:28 AM PST. Users also reported issues with Facebook groups appearing empty or missing content during the incident. The engineering team deployed a fix and fully resolved the issue by 5:33 AM PST.