diff --git a/google-cloud-bigtable/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigtable/admin/v2/it/BigtableInstanceAdminClientIT.java b/google-cloud-bigtable/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigtable/admin/v2/it/BigtableInstanceAdminClientIT.java
index 8496561676..fcb9c36b62 100644
--- a/google-cloud-bigtable/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigtable/admin/v2/it/BigtableInstanceAdminClientIT.java
+++ b/google-cloud-bigtable/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigtable/admin/v2/it/BigtableInstanceAdminClientIT.java
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 import com.google.cloud.bigtable.test_helpers.env.PrefixGenerator;
 import com.google.cloud.bigtable.test_helpers.env.TestEnvRule;
 import java.util.List;
+import org.junit.Assert;
 import org.junit.Before;
 import org.junit.BeforeClass;
 import org.junit.ClassRule;
@@ -314,6 +315,8 @@ public void createClusterWithAutoscalingTest() {
       assertThat(cluster.getAutoscalingMinServeNodes()).isEqualTo(1);
       assertThat(cluster.getAutoscalingMaxServeNodes()).isEqualTo(4);
       assertThat(cluster.getAutoscalingCpuPercentageTarget()).isEqualTo(20);
+    } catch (Exception e) {
+      Assert.fail("error in the test" + e.getMessage());
     } finally {
       client.deleteInstance(newInstanceId);
     }
@@ -379,6 +382,8 @@ public void createClusterWithAutoscalingAndPartialUpdateTest() {
       assertThat(updatedCluster.getAutoscalingMinServeNodes()).isEqualTo(2);
       assertThat(updatedCluster.getAutoscalingMaxServeNodes()).isEqualTo(5);
       assertThat(updatedCluster.getAutoscalingCpuPercentageTarget()).isEqualTo(45);
+    } catch (Exception e) {
+      Assert.fail("error in the test: " + e.getMessage());
     } finally {
       client.deleteInstance(newInstanceId);
     }
@@ -409,6 +414,8 @@ public void createClusterWithManualScalingTest() {
       assertThat(cluster.getAutoscalingMaxServeNodes()).isEqualTo(0);
       assertThat(cluster.getAutoscalingMinServeNodes()).isEqualTo(0);
       assertThat(cluster.getAutoscalingCpuPercentageTarget()).isEqualTo(0);
+    } catch (Exception e) {
+      Assert.fail("error in the test: " + e.getMessage());
     } finally {
       client.deleteInstance(newInstanceId);
     }