Why does gcloud not see my managed notebook?

I have a Vertex AI managed notebook in europe-west1-d. I try both (locally and in the notebook):

gcloud notebooks instances list --location=europe-west1-d
gcloud compute instances list --filter="my-notebook-name" --format "[box]"

and both return nothing. What am I missing?

Solution

When creating a Vertex AI managed notebook, it is expected that the instance won't appear on your project. By design, the notebook instance is created in a Google managed project and is not visible to the end user.

But if you want to see instance details of your managed notebooks, you can use the Notebooks API to send a request to runtimes.list. See example request:

project=your-project-here
location=us-central1 #adjust based on your location

curl -X GET -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer "$(gcloud auth application-default print-access-token) \
"https://notebooks.googleapis.com/v1/projects/${project}/locations/${location}/runtimes"

Response output: