Shut down a user-managed notebooks instance

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 notebooks page.

   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 Kernels tab.

   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 notebooks page.

   Go to User-managed notebooks

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