Ad Platform Outage &
Ban-Wave Incident Radar
Work through clearly labeled, illustrative incident scenarios for Meta, Google, and TikTok enforcement and billing incidents — with official-review and evidence-preservation steps. This page does not show live platform telemetry; any platform-published figure should be confirmed against official dashboards.
This radar does not currently ingest live platform telemetry. No incident count, latency reading, or volatility score on this page is a live measurement.
What is an ad platform bot sweep, and how should media buyers triage a suspected enforcement incident?
Here, ad platform bot sweep labels an apparent cluster of account restrictions. It does not establish automation, a shared root cause, or whether a case received human review. This page has no verified measurements of platform triggers, thresholds, timing, or false-positive rates. The scenarios below are illustrative: preserve evidence, check the account's actual notices, use the relevant official support or review channel, and document each step before drawing a conclusion.
# 1. Read-only check of your own ad account state (verify the endpoint version
# and fields against the current official API documentation before running)
curl -s -X GET "https://graph.facebook.com/v20.0/act_<AD_ACCOUNT_ID>" -H "Authorization: Bearer $SYSTEM_USER_ACCESS_TOKEN" -d "fields=account_status,disable_reason,amount_spent,spend_cap"
# 2. Compare the response with the official field reference — e.g. what
# account_status and disable_reason report. Save the full response with
# timestamps as evidence for an official appeal. This page runs no polling;
# the output below is an illustrative placeholder, not a live reading.
{
"account_status": <value from your account>,
"disable_reason": <value from your account or empty>,
"amount_spent": <value from your account>,
"spend_cap": <value from your account>
}Were your ad campaigns hit today? Log & Triage
Select the closest scenario below. Your selection is logged privately in this browser only and opens an illustrative triage checklist — official-review steps, evidence preservation, and how to reach the desk. Scenarios are hypothetical examples, not live incident data, and no cause is confirmed until the platform confirms it.
Triage Checklist for Selected Scenario
Possible Patterns (Unverified)
Select a scenario above to see patterns operators commonly report with it — listed for triage only, not a diagnosed cause. Confirm the actual cause through the platform's official review.
What NOT to Do
Do not delete ads, campaigns, billing records, or admin history before an official review — preserve the evidence. Avoid mass-submitting near-identical appeals; document each attempt and its response instead.
Official Review & Next Steps
Work through the platform's documented appeal channel, keep timestamps and screenshots of every step, and record outcomes. If you want help structuring compliant, isolated infrastructure to limit future blast radius, contact the desk below.
Official Status Badges vs. Field Reality
An illustrative pattern: platform-wide status pages can show all-clear while individual ad accounts remain restricted. Status dashboards and account-level enforcement are different systems.
Multiple Business Portfolios report sudden automated restrictions around the same period, often with no stated policy violation. This page has not verified how account-level enforcement appears on public status pages; specific rates and causes are unverified.
For a notice mentioning suspicious payment activity, preserve the exact wording and reconcile the billing history. Do not infer a particular payment signal or risk score from this illustrative scenario.
Card pre-authorization failures or frozen balances appear around sudden budget increases. This page has not verified a platform payment-risk threshold or the mechanism behind this pattern.
Incident Scenarios We Commonly Help Triage
Several Business Managers restricted in the same week with no stated policy violation
In this composite scenario, secondary BMs are disabled while appeal routes stay unclear. Triage: capture screenshots, export account history, and start the official appeal. Causes are unverified until the platform confirms them.
High-value legal ads flagged for landing page experience mismatches
In this composite scenario, ads draw automated landing page flags, followed by account-level review and spend restraint. Triage: compare each ad's destination against policy requirements and keep the review correspondence as evidence.
Certified telehealth creatives rejected while certification documents sit on file
In this composite scenario, creatives in a regulated vertical are rejected despite uploaded certification. Triage: resubmit through the official certification and review flow, and keep every rejection notice — do not reword creatives to evade the classifier.
Status page shows all-clear while the ad manager keeps rejecting actions
In this composite scenario, platform-wide status is healthy but account-level actions stay blocked. Triage: run your own read-only API check (see the example above), compare it with the official status dashboard, and record both results — divergence alone does not distinguish account-level review from a partial or unreported outage; preserve both results, inspect the account notice, and use the official status/support channels.
Build Resilience Before the Next Incident
AdsInfra helps high-spend operators structure compliant, isolated ad account infrastructure and practiced incident workflows — with evidence-first triage and human support when enforcement hits.