Is Facebook Down?

Q: Is Facebook down right now?

Check the status indicator above for real-time Facebook availability. If Facebook is down, you can also check their official status page at https://downdetector.com/status/facebook/ for incident updates.

Real-time status check for Facebook (facebook.com). We check from multiple regions to give you an accurate picture.

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About Facebook

Facebook is Meta's flagship social network, spanning News Feed, Messenger (now partly reunified), Marketplace, Groups, Events, Pages, Ads, and Meta Business Suite. Outages affect different surfaces: feed not loading or showing only ads, login loops (especially after suspicious-activity checks), Marketplace listings failing to post, Groups notifications not delivering, and Business Suite unable to load ad accounts. Page owners and ad buyers feel Business-side outages immediately because budgets keep spending while dashboards are unavailable. Meta shares infrastructure across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp, so large-scale outages tend to hit all four.

The official Facebook status page is at downdetector.com/status/facebook. However, official status pages are often updated manually and can lag behind real outages by minutes or even hours. Independent monitoring catches issues faster.

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Official status pages are often updated manually, lagging 5-30 minutes behind actual outages. Visual Sentinel detects issues within 60 seconds automatically.

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We check from EU and US simultaneously. A service might be down in one region but not another, we catch regional outages.

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Track Facebook uptime over time. See trends, identify recurring issues, and make informed decisions about your dependency on the service.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Facebook down right now?+

Check the status indicator at the top of this page for real-time Facebook availability. If Facebook is down, you can also check their official status page at https://downdetector.com/status/facebook/ for incident updates.

How do I check if Facebook is having issues?+

This page checks Facebook availability in real time. You can also monitor Facebook continuously with Visual Sentinel, get instant alerts via email, Slack, Discord, or WhatsApp when Facebook goes down.

How can I get alerted when Facebook goes down?+

Set up a free monitor for facebook.com on Visual Sentinel. You'll get alerts within 60 seconds via your choice of 11 notification channels including email, WhatsApp, Slack, Discord, and Telegram.

Where is the official Facebook status page?+

The official Facebook status page is at https://downdetector.com/status/facebook/. However, official status pages often lag behind real outages. Visual Sentinel detects Facebook issues independently with 60-second checks from multiple global regions.

Why are my Facebook ads still spending if the platform is down?+

Facebook ad delivery runs on auction infrastructure that is more resilient than the dashboard. Ads can keep being served to users while Business Suite is inaccessible. Spend is usually billed correctly, but real-time reporting may be delayed by hours.

Does a Facebook outage take down Messenger too?+

Messenger runs on largely shared infrastructure with Facebook. Major outages tend to affect both. Smaller Facebook-specific outages (e.g. Feed ranking) leave Messenger working. Messenger-specific outages (message delivery, voice calls) usually do not affect Facebook itself.