Does Facebook Graph API have a health-check endpoint?

jeff00seattle
April 21, 2018
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I am working on an application which primarily expects the Facebook Graph API (specifically FB Marketing API and FB Insights API) to be available 24/7.

However, for most of the day today, the Facebook Graph API has been having lots of “503: Server Error: The server cannot process the request due to a high load.”

I would prefer to perform a health-check before requesting an asynchronous job request to generate an FB app marketing report.

Suggestions welcomed!

Thank you.

Tags: facebook-graph-api

Answers

- MichaelAndorfer
- April 25, 2018 at 1:29 pm
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As far as I know Facebook does not reveal much information about its API health status.

The only information you can get can be fetched via https://www.facebook.com/platform/api-status/ which returns the following data:
```
{
   "current": {
      "health": number which indicates the health, the lower the better,
      "subject": "text information about current action, problems etc."
   }
}
```
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- Ryan
- November 28, 2019 at 5:30 pm
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As I’m learning during this major Facebook outage on Thanksgiving Day 2019…

https://developers.facebook.com/status/dashboard/ is not reliable.

On that page, I’ve had “Get Email Updates” set to Yes for years, but I’ve never received emails about issues (such as the major outage right now).

In addition, that status dashboard page currently (inaccurately) says:

https://www.facebook.com/platform/api-status/ similarly has been saying:
```
{
   "current": {
      "health": 1,
      "subject": "Facebook Platform is Healthy"
   }
}
```
And my personal Facebook page fails to load, hanging like this:

What I realized eventually was that visiting https://developers.facebook.com/status/dashboard/ in Chrome Incognito (cache cleared, not logged-in) produced a different page, which led me to see that they’ve acknowledged today’s major issues since “Today at 6:45 AM”: https://developers.facebook.com/status/issues/2287293591515186/
```
{
   "current": {
      "health": 2,
      "subject": "Increased error rates across the platform"
   }
}
```
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