Meta Ads outage on Mar 3, 2026

What happened

Meta Ads reported a major outage starting Mar 3, 2026, 21:58 UTC, affecting Ads Creation and Editing. It was marked resolved at Mar 3, 2026, 23:35 UTC.

• The incident lasted 1h 38m from first report to resolution.
• Meta Ads had reported 6 other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
• 4 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 editing and creation in Ads Manager, and services have now been restored. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may have caused.

Read Meta Ads's official incident report ↗

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.

• Partial outageHungerRushMar 3, 2026, 15:57 UTC

  Worldpay Funding Delays

• Partial outageMeevoMar 3, 2026, 16:06 UTC

  Potential Funding Delay - Federal Reserve

• Partial outageSmartsheetMar 3, 2026, 17:16 UTC

  Form Submissions issue

• Major outageBrexMar 3, 2026, 22:14 UTC

  Dashboard Partial Outage

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