tensorflow - How can I run Tensorboard on a remote server?

Question

I'm new to Tensorflow and would greatly benefit from some visualizations of what I'm doing. I understand that Tensorboard is a useful visualization tool, but how do I run it on my remote Ubuntu machine?

Answer 1

Here is what I do to avoid the issues of making the remote server accept your local external IP:

• when I ssh into the machine, I use the option -L to transfer the port 6006 of the remote server into the port 16006 of my machine (for instance): ssh -L 16006:127.0.0.1:6006 olivier@my_server_ip

What it does is that everything on the port 6006 of the server (in 127.0.0.1:6006) will be forwarded to my machine on the port 16006.

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• You can then launch tensorboard on the remote machine using a standard tensorboard --logdir log with the default 6006port
• On your local machine, go to http://127.0.0.1:16006 and enjoy your remote TensorBoard.