Deprecation Facebook Severity: high
More Page Insights metrics removed on September 16, 2024
What changed
Meta announced on June 17, 2024 a second wave of Page Insights metric removals, effective September 16, 2024 for all versions. The Pages changelog links to the full list.
What it means
Requests for metrics such as page_views, page_fans_online and post_engaged_fan return an invalid metric error.
Who is affected
Schedulers and dashboards that report Facebook Page analytics.
What to do by 16 Sept 2024
Remove the deprecated metrics from requests before September 16, 2024 and use the metrics that remain supported.
Primary sources
Checked against the source 26 Oct 2026
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