IonQ experienced a critical incident on February 17, 2026 affecting IonQ Forte, lasting 1d. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
IonQ Forte
Update timeline
- identified Feb 17, 2026, 05:15 PM UTC
Hey all, Forte is experiencing an unexpected outage and will be unable to process jobs at this time. We will provide an update on the systems status by 02/17/2026 at 8PM UTC, and will keep you posted if it looks like we’ll be coming back sooner (or later) than that. Best,
- investigating Feb 17, 2026, 08:07 PM UTC
We are continuing to troubleshoot and investigate the root cause of the outage. We will provide an update on the systems status by 02/18/2026 at 10PM UTC, and will keep you posted if things change.
- resolved Feb 18, 2026, 05:41 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.