Shut down a user-managed notebooks instance

Vertex AI Workbench user-managed notebooks is deprecated . On April 14, 2025, support for user-managed notebooks will end and the ability to create user-managed notebooks instances will be removed. Existing instances will continue to function but patches, updates, and upgrades won't be available. To continue using Vertex AI Workbench, we recommend that you migrate your user-managed notebooks instances to Vertex AI Workbench instances .

To stop any processing for a user-managed notebooks instance, you can shut down the instance.

You incur costs for running an instance, in addition to other potential costs (see Pricing ). To stop incurring costs for running an instance, shut down the instance. You continue to incur other potential costs.

To shut down a user-managed notebooks instance, complete the following steps:

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the User-managed notebookspage.

   Go to User-managed notebooks

2. Select the instance that you want to open.

3. Click Open JupyterLab.

   It is important to stop all running processes in case there are operations that need to complete before you shut down your user-managed notebooks instance, for example, I/O processes that are writing to disk.

   To stop all running processes:

   1. To show all of the processes that are running, select the Running Terminals and Kernelstab.

   2. Next to each running process, click Shutdown all.

4. Close the browser tab or window for your user-managed notebooks instance.

5. In the Google Cloud console, return to the User-managed notebookspage.

   Go to User-managed notebooks

6. Select the instance that you want to shut down, and then click square Stop.