Today 14 December 2020 Gmail, and youtube are down and showing 502 or sometimes 500 errors. also for some people who are already logged in Gmail is working fine but if you are logged out or trying to login it will give you an error and will not let you logged in.
As per Downdetector a lot of people are having the issue. so around 80% of people have issues logging into their accounts and around 14% of people are not able to open Gmail website.
In this pandemic, people working from home depend mostly on the flow of emails and it was the most unthinkable development. The news organizations which depend on Gmail for receiving emails on the latest developments were left with no news updates flowing into the newsrooms. A lot of people who use Gmail as their main communication platform seems to be stuck on busy Monday morning time.