Monitoring and tracking jobs

The Qiskit Notebooks hosted on IQX are built on Jupyter Notebooks. This allows us to use some of the features that are available to us to enhance our experience and optimize our time when programming quantum circuits. One of these features is the ability to track jobs in real time while they are executing. We'll try this out here with a test circuit using the following steps:

1. First, we'll create a new Qiskit notebook and enter the following in a new cell:

   # Import the Qiskit Jupyter tools 
   from qiskit.tools import jupyter

2. Now that we have imported the Qiskit Jupyter tools and have created our provider, we can launch the job tracking widget:

   # Initialize the job tracker to automatically track all # jobs
   %qiskit_job_watcher

   The preceding code will launch the Job Watcher widget to the top left of your Qiskit notebook to track your jobs.

3. We'll then create and execute a circuit to test the job watcher:

   # Let's run a simple circuit...