# Colab Runtime and Kernel Management

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/google-colab/colab-runtime-and-kernel-management/  
**Provider:** Google Colab — https://apis.io/providers/google-colab/  
**Base URL:** https://colab.research.google.com  
**Documentation:** https://research.google.com/colaboratory/faq.html

Colab Runtime and Kernel Management is one of 4 APIs that [Google Colab](https://apis.io/providers/google-colab/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include GPU, Kernel, Runtime, and TPU. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

Google Colab provides internal APIs for managing notebook runtimes and kernels, including connecting to hosted runtimes, local runtimes, and custom GCE VM backends. The runtime API handles kernel lifecycle (connect, interrupt, restart), resource allocation (GPU/TPU), and execution of notebook cells. These capabilities are exposed through the Colab UI and the colab Python package.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://research.google.com/colaboratory/faq.html
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-colab/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Google Colab APIs (3)

- [Colab Enterprise API](https://apis.io/apis/google-colab/colab-enterprise-api/)
- [Google Colab Files API](https://apis.io/apis/google-colab/google-colab-files-api/)
- [Google Colab Permissions API](https://apis.io/apis/google-colab/google-colab-permissions-api/)

## Tags

GPU, Kernel, Runtime, TPU

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