diff --git a/src/components/services/widget/error.jsx b/src/components/services/widget/error.jsx
index 587c572f..cf5e1366 100644
--- a/src/components/services/widget/error.jsx
+++ b/src/components/services/widget/error.jsx
@@ -9,10 +9,12 @@ function displayData(data) {
   return (data.type === 'Buffer') ? Buffer.from(data).toString() : JSON.stringify(data, 4);
 }
 
-export default function Error({ error: err }) {
+export default function Error({ error }) {
   const { t } = useTranslation();
 
-  const { error } = err?.data ?? { error: err };
+  if (error?.data?.error) {
+    error = error.data.error; // eslint-disable-line no-param-reassign
+  }
 
   return (
     <details className="px-1 pb-1">
diff --git a/src/widgets/kubernetes/component.jsx b/src/widgets/kubernetes/component.jsx
index c4d67553..e756e4be 100644
--- a/src/widgets/kubernetes/component.jsx
+++ b/src/widgets/kubernetes/component.jsx
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ export default function Component({ service }) {
     `/api/kubernetes/stats/${widget.namespace}/${widget.app}?${podSelectorString}`);
 
   if (statsError || statusError) {
-    return <Container service={service} error={t("widget.api_error")} />;
+    return <Container service={service} error={statsError ?? statusError} />;
   }
 
   if (statusData && statusData.status !== "running") {
diff --git a/src/widgets/portainer/component.jsx b/src/widgets/portainer/component.jsx
index aab9eba1..7da289c4 100644
--- a/src/widgets/portainer/component.jsx
+++ b/src/widgets/portainer/component.jsx
@@ -1,12 +1,8 @@
-import { useTranslation } from "next-i18next";
-
 import Container from "components/services/widget/container";
 import Block from "components/services/widget/block";
 import useWidgetAPI from "utils/proxy/use-widget-api";
 
 export default function Component({ service }) {
-  const { t } = useTranslation();
-
   const { widget } = service;
 
   const { data: containersData, error: containersError } = useWidgetAPI(widget, "docker/containers/json", {
@@ -27,8 +23,9 @@ export default function Component({ service }) {
     );
   }
 
-  if (containersData.error) {
-    return <Container service={service} error={t("widget.api_error")} />;
+  if (containersData.error || !Array.isArray(containersData)) {
+    // containersData can be itself an error object
+    return <Container service={service} error={ containersData?.error ?? containersData } />;
   }
 
   const running = containersData.filter((c) => c.State === "running").length;