Is Facebook Down Right Now?

The instant check tool above tests facebook.com live from HostTracker's network of 300+ worldwide locations at once, rather than from just your own connection. If every location fails to reach it, the outage is real and affects everyone; if only a few locations fail while most load normally, the problem is local to those regions or networks rather than Facebook being fully down. A single refresh from your own browser can never make that distinction, because it only ever tests from one vantage point on one network.

Yes. HostTracker lets you add any URL — including third-party services you depend on, not just your own website — as a monitored target, and notifies you automatically the moment it becomes unreachable. Before sending an alert, HostTracker re-verifies a failure from multiple locations in its 300+-location network, so you're notified about real, confirmed outages rather than a single location's momentary blip. The free plan checks two monitors every 30 minutes indefinitely at no cost; paid plans check as often as once a minute, with alerts available through SMS, email, voice call, and several messenger apps.

Often, yes — Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp all run on Meta's shared backend infrastructure, so a sufficiently deep infrastructure incident can affect multiple platforms at the same time, which is a recognizable pattern from several major past outages. That said, it isn't guaranteed: Meta's platforms also have product-specific components, so it's possible for only one app to be affected while the others work normally. If you rely on more than one Meta platform, it's worth checking each independently rather than assuming they all share the same status.

Many third-party websites and apps use "Login with Facebook" for authentication, which depends on Meta's identity/API infrastructure staying healthy. When that layer has an incident, sign-in can fail across many unrelated third-party sites at once, even though those sites' own servers are completely unaffected — the failure is happening inside Facebook's infrastructure, just surfacing on someone else's login page.