Webfacebook’s family of apps, which includes instagram, whatsapp and messenger, were offline for more than five hours as employees scrambled to repair the. Webmany users reported being logged out of facebook accounts with no ability to log back in. Service was mostly restored by 1 p. m. , though some users noted lingering. Webit appears that the outage was due to a configuration change in facebook’s systems that resulted in facebook’s machines being unable to communicate with each. Websantosh janardhan, vp of infrastructure at facebook, wrote that “the root cause of this outage was a faulty configuration change,” elaborating that “configuration. Webthe cause of the outages still has not been explained, but for the more than three billion people in the united states and abroad who use these apps to.
