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Meta Outage History

Every past Meta outage tracked by IsDown, with detection times, duration, and resolution details.

There were 539 Meta outages since May 2023. The 139 outages from the last 12 months are summarized below, with incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Minor May 26, 2026

May 2026: Outage in Meta Audience Network - Revenue Reporting

Detected May 26, 2026 5:50 AM EDT · Resolved May 26, 2026 11:49 AM EDT · Duration about 6 hours

Meta Audience Network experienced a 6-hour outage affecting revenue reporting functionality. The incident was classified as minor with low disruptions to the reporting system. Meta resolved the reporting issue and apologized for the inconvenience caused to users.

Major May 19, 2026

May 2026: Outage in WhatsApp Business API - Marketing Messages API for WhatsApp

Detected May 19, 2026 2:08 AM EDT · Resolved May 19, 2026 12:42 PM EDT · Duration about 11 hours

Meta experienced a major outage affecting the WhatsApp Business API Marketing Messages service, specifically impacting webhook delivery and media message sending capabilities. The disruption lasted 10.6 hours, beginning at 11:30 AM SGT on May 19th and affecting businesses using the WhatsApp Business API platform. Meta's engineering teams investigated and fully restored all services by 6:08 AM UTC on May 19th.

Major May 19, 2026

May 2026: Outage in Messenger Platform - Platform Status

Detected May 19, 2026 1:04 AM EDT · Resolved May 19, 2026 1:23 AM EDT · Duration 19 minutes

Meta'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 the core messaging functionality for developers and businesses using the platform. The incident was resolved after 19 minutes with engineering teams investigating and addressing the underlying issues.

Major May 19, 2026

May 2026: Outage in WhatsApp Business API - Cloud API

Detected May 19, 2026 12:59 AM EDT · Resolved May 19, 2026 12:42 PM EDT · Duration about 12 hours

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

Minor May 7, 2026

May 2026: Outage in Meta Business Suite - Inbox

Detected May 7, 2026 1:58 AM EDT · Resolved May 7, 2026 8:40 AM EDT · Duration about 7 hours

Meta Business Suite experienced an outage that disrupted the Inbox tool's message sending functionality for 6.7 hours. The incident affected users' ability to send messages through the MBS Inbox feature. Meta recovered from the outage and restored the messaging capabilities.

Major May 6, 2026

May 2026: Outage in WhatsApp Business API - Coexistence - Onboarding

Detected May 6, 2026 2:52 PM EDT · Resolved May 6, 2026 11:26 PM EDT · Duration about 9 hours

Meta experienced a major outage affecting WhatsApp Business API onboarding for coexistence functionality, causing high disruptions for 8.6 hours. The incident impacted businesses attempting to onboard to the WhatsApp Business API coexistence feature. Engineering teams investigated and resolved the issue after the extended outage period.

Minor May 5, 2026

May 2026: Outage in Facebook Ads Manager - Ads Delivery

Detected May 5, 2026 4:00 PM EDT · Resolved May 5, 2026 7:19 PM EDT · Duration about 3 hours

Meta experienced an outage affecting Facebook Ads Manager that impacted ad delivery for 3.3 hours. The issue caused medium-level disruptions to advertising campaigns running through the platform. Meta's engineering teams actively worked to resolve the delivery problems and restore normal service.

Major May 3, 2026

May 2026: Outage in Ads Transparency - Ad Library Report

Detected May 3, 2026 8:14 PM EDT · Resolved May 7, 2026 5:55 PM EDT · Duration 4 days

Meta experienced a major outage affecting the Ad Library Report within their Ads Transparency service that lasted approximately 94 hours. The incident caused high disruptions to users' ability to access advertising transparency data through the Ad Library Report feature. Meta's teams worked to resolve the issue, though the extended duration indicates it was a complex problem requiring significant time to fully address.

Major May 2, 2026

May 2026: Outage in Data Transparency - Meta Secure Research Environment

Detected May 2, 2026 4:26 AM EDT · Resolved May 5, 2026 8:34 AM EDT · Duration 3 days

Meta experienced a major outage affecting their Data Transparency service, specifically the Meta Secure Research Environment. The outage lasted 76.2 hours with high disruptions reported. Meta's teams worked to resolve the issue, though no specific resolution details were provided in the incident report.

Minor April 30, 2026

April 2026: Outage in WhatsApp Business API - Cloud API

Detected Apr 30, 2026 8:33 AM EDT · Resolved Apr 30, 2026 9:44 AM EDT · Duration about 1 hour

WhatsApp Business API experienced disruptions that prevented messages from being sent through the Cloud API service. The outage lasted approximately 1.2 hours, starting at 3:28 AM PST on April 30th. Meta's engineering teams deployed a fix and fully resolved the issue by 5:33 AM PST the same day.