New Delhi: Google Meet users across India have recently experienced a significant disruption, with thousands reporting problems while trying to access the platform. Data from Downdetector showed a sudden surge in outage reports, crossing nearly 2,000 complaints within a short period. According to Downdetector, there was 66% of users flagged website-related glitches during the outage. Another 32% struggled with the server connection issues, while 2% reported poor video quality.
This disruption affected several major cities, with the large clusters of outages seen in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Chennai and Ahmedabad. Many of the people attempting to join meetings stated they were greeted with the message 502. That’s an error. Users shared screenshots on X and expressed frustration as the problem spread across the country. As the platform went down, users took to X to share their experiences. One user wrote that, “Google Meet crashed before my will to work did.” Another posted that, “Google Meet is down for everyone in my org but not for me.”
A 502 error on Google Meet is a bad gateway message; it appears when Google’s servers or the systems connecting users to the platform fail to respond appropriately. It is an HTTP 502 status code, which means a server acting as a gateway or proxy got an invalid response from another server. The issue is usually on the server side, not with the user’s device. Google Meet’s servers are facing problems, and the platform cannot load or connect to a meeting at that moment.
