Outage report · Partial outage
Meta Ads outage on May 5, 2026
Ads Delivery disruption
SeverityPartial outage
StartedMay 5, 2026, 20:00UTC
ResolvedMay 5, 2026, 22:55UTC
Duration2h 55m
What happened
Meta Ads reported a partial outage starting May 5, 2026, 20:00 UTC, affecting Ads Delivery. It was marked resolved at May 5, 2026, 22:55 UTC.
- The incident lasted 2h 55m from first report to resolution.
- It was the 3rd longest of 10 significant outages Meta Ads reported in the 12 months up to it.
- Meta Ads had reported 9 other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
- 8 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.
Latest update from Meta Ads
We have recovered from an earlier outage impacting Ads Delivery, and services have now been restored. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may have caused.
What our independent monitoring saw
Our independent monitoring of Meta Ads started after this incident, so this report is based on Meta Ads's status page.
Other outages around the same time
Significant incidents other vendors reported within 12 hours of this one.
Meta Ads's overall reliability
91.5/100
Meta Ads has a reliability score of 91.5/100, with 99.92% effective uptime and 2 incidents over the last 90 days.
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