Monitor a job
Jobs are listed on the Jobs page for your quantum service channel:
- IBM Cloud channel: From the IBM Cloud console quantum Instances page (opens in a new tab), click the name of your instance, then click the Jobs tab.
- IBM Quantum channel: In IBM Quantum Platform, open the Jobs page (opens in a new tab).
Use the job instance to check the job status or retrieve the results by calling the appropriate command:
| job.result() | Review job results immediately after the job completes. Job results are available after the job completes. Therefore, job.result() is a blocking call until the job completes. |
| job.job_id() | Return the ID that uniquely identifies that job. Retrieving the job results at a later time requires the job ID. Therefore, it is recommended that you save the IDs of jobs you might want to retrieve later. |
| job.status() | Check the job status. |
| job = service.job(<job_id>) | Retrieve a job you previously submitted. This call requires the job ID. |
Retrieve job results at a later time
Call service.job(\<job\how_toID>) to retrieve a job you previously submitted. If you don’t have the job ID, or if you want to retrieve multiple jobs at once; including jobs from retired systems, call service.jobs() with optional filters instead. See QiskitRuntimeService.jobs.
Note
service.jobs() returns only Qiskit Runtime jobs. To retrieve other jobs, use qiskit-ibm-provider instead.
Example
This example returns the 10 most recent runtime jobs that were run on my_backend:
from qiskit_ibm_runtime import QiskitRuntimeService
# Initialize the account first.
service = QiskitRuntimeService()
service.jobs(backend_name=my_backend)Qiskit tools (qiskit.tools)
For more information, see the Qiskit tools documentation in the Qiskit Terra API reference.
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