Is Facebook down right now?
HostTracker's monitoring network reached facebook.com and completed a full check without errors. It has been up for 14d 9h.
Checking facebook.com right now
A fresh check, started when you opened this page - each probe runs its own independent DNS, TCP, TLS and HTTP request. Anonymous runs sample the network; a signed-in account checks from more locations.
Incident history
LAST 90 DAYSNo incidents recorded in the last 90 days.
About Facebook outages
Written by the HostTracker monitoring team · updated from live probe data.
Facebook remains one of the most heavily trafficked platforms on the internet, and because Meta's infrastructure also underpins Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger, a Facebook-side incident can be an early signal of a wider Meta-platform issue rather than something isolated to one app. For businesses, a Facebook outage can mean lost access to Business Manager, ad campaigns pausing unexpectedly, or Facebook Login breaking on third-party sites and apps that depend on it - impact that extends well past people simply not being able to scroll their feed. Checking facebook.com's own reachability directly is a fast way to confirm whether an issue is platform-wide before troubleshooting a specific app, page, or ad account.
Common causes of Facebook downtime
Backend infrastructure or configuration incidents that can affect Facebook alongside other Meta platforms (Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger) simultaneously
News Feed or content-delivery issues that leave the site loading but showing stale or empty content
Facebook Login/API incidents that break sign-in and integrations on third-party sites without necessarily taking down facebook.com itself
Regional network or DNS issues making facebook.com unreachable from specific countries or ISPs
Not sure whether it's Facebook or your own connection? Read the full breakdown in our website down checker guide for a general walkthrough of diagnosing any outage, from DNS failures to expired certificates.
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Questions people ask during an outage
The live probe run on this page tests facebook.com from a broad sample of HostTracker's 300+-location monitoring network - many independent networks at the same moment, rather than 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.
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