idea Speed up jupyter notebooks in ArcGIS Pro in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Speed up jupyter notebooks in ArcGIS Pro

CordulaGöke — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 12:28:52 GMT

I appreciate the integration of Jupyter Notebooks into ArcGIS Pro, as it greatly enhances workflows. However, the performance is significantly slower compared to other platforms such as VS Code. Tasks like opening notebooks and modifying the environments have been consistently slow for a long time. Since upgrading to ArcGIS Pro 3.6.1, execution speed has also degraded to the point that it renders it useless.

If other applications can handle Jupyter Notebooks efficiently, ArcGIS Pro should be able to achieve similar performance. Improving speed and responsiveness would greatly enhance the user experience and productivity for data science and GIS workflows. For the time being I will experiment with the advice of how to work with aprx from outside ArcGIS pro.

Re: Speed up jupyter notebooks in ArcGIS Pro

AlfredBaldenweck — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:53:00 GMT

Re: Speed up jupyter notebooks in ArcGIS Pro - Status changed to: Closed

ValeriaChavez — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:38:26 GMT

Hi @CordulaGöke!

As we note in the ArcGIS Ideas Submission Guidelines, performance issues are not a good fit for Idea Exchanges. Just like with bugs, performance issues should always be reported to Technical Support for further investigation.

Thank you for being an active member of Esri Community!

Re: Speed up jupyter notebooks in ArcGIS Pro

CordulaGöke — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 09:37:27 GMT

@ValeriaChavezContacting technical support seldom leads to anything. With our setup our first technical support contact is the local distributor. Especially the case that opening them is slow, what are they supposed to do about it? It is not that they are not working, so I don't think it qualifies as a bug and the other option to workaround it is just not have notebooks in the project.