Google Meet, one of the most popular free conference bridges by Google, is reportedly down for thousands of users in India. Several users have been taking to social media to report the Google Meet outage. Downdetector currently has received over 1700 reports of the unavailability of the platform. Reports have come in from various Indian cities such as Delhi, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Bengaluru, and Chennai, to name a few.
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Google Meet is a video conferencing app, which is the business-oriented version of Google’s Hangouts platform and is suitable for businesses of all sizes. Users state that while some were able to access the platform through their mobiles, they were unable to join through laptops. “Is there an issue with Google Meet when you open from your laptop? Works well in mobile though and my whole org seems to be going through the same issue,” says one such user.
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“Current Google Meet Disruption. Affected Service: Google Meet (video conferencing). Primary Affected Region: Reports are heavily centred on India, where the issues coincided with peak working hours. Reported Symptoms: Users are seeing elevated errors and issues, including: Inability to join or host meetings. Errors like “502. That’s an error.” Problems with the Google Meet website interface. Widespread Impact: Outage tracking websites like Down Detector showed a sharp spike in reports, confirming a significant disruption for corporate users and students across the country,” adds another user.
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“502 from Google Meet usually indicates that the regional edge proxy cannot establish a successful upstream connection with Google’s core meeting service. In most cases, this points to a failure in the regional load balancer or a misbehaving CDN PoP serving India,” adds a user, Uday Sharma, on social media platform X. While the Google Meet outage persists and the platform still faces issues, the company is yet to issue a fix or a statement with regard to the issue.
Between October and November, a series of outages hit major cloud and internet service providers, raising fresh concerns about global digital reliability. AWS experienced downtime on October 20, followed by Microsoft Azure on October 29 and Oracle Cloud on October 30. Cloudflare reported disruptions on November 18, and Google Meet faced an outage on November 26.
