What is a 502 error?
On Tuesday afternoon, users came across a screen showing Error 502, which occurs when the server of a page, in this case Google, sends an invalid response or stops responding to the other server that works as an intermediary.
According to the Downdetector portal, the first reports of failures began around 4:30 p.m. (Central Mexico time) and had their highest peak around 5:10 p.m. Since then, the failures began to decrease and some users recovered the services.
However, the Google Workspace Health Dashboard did not detect any abnormalities in any of the Mountain View company’s apps. The last reported was on March 16 and it was an interruption in the Google Workspace support service
Separately, Apple said Tuesday that it again suffered an outage in its infrastructure services, which affected services such as Apple Music, Podcasts, Books and the App Store. However, the company mentioned that such problems were resolved.