Unable to open Tensorboard in browser - machine-learning

Question

I am following google cloud machine learning tutorial and I am unable to Launch TensorBoard
I've followed the steps in the above tutorial (also set up my environment using docker container) until typing the below command in the terminal
tensorboard --logdir=data/ --port=8080
Where the terminal outputs the below prompt
Starting TensorBoard 29 on port 8080
(You can navigate to http://172.17.0.2:8080)
When I visit http://172.17.0.2:8080 in my browser I see nothing (the server where this page is located is not responding).
Can someone please advice how I can launch Tensor Board ?

Answer 1

Had the same problem this morning. Solved it with
tensorboard --logdir=data/ --host localhost --port 8088
Navigated the browser to http://localhost:8088

Answer 2

Try
tensorboard --logdir=d:/data --host 0.0.0.0
This will open socket listening to all network interfaces, so you can connect from local host (same pc) or from the local network(from pc/mobile in network).

Answer 3

I faced the same problem when used Tensorboard inside a Docker container. The successful steps in my case were:
First of all, make sure the port you use for Tensorboard is opened to the outside world. To make this possible run your Docker container with an option -p <host_machine_port>:<tensorboard_port_inside_container>. For example:
docker run --name my_tensorboard_container -p 7777:8080 my_tensorboard_image bash
Then if you still cannot access the Tensorboard try to add --bind_all option like so:
tensorboard --bind_all --port 8080 --logdir ./logs
Hope, it works in your case as well.

Answer 4

It looks like the port 8080 is not open on your machine.
You can check it with this command line tool: netstat -a.
To open a specific port on google cloud platform, see this answer from SO.

Answer 5

If you are using Google Cloud Shell you have to click on icon placed in upper left of shell window.

Answer 6

There are 2 solutions(as far as i could check) to solve this problem:
Instead of using the http://name:port_number, use
http://localhost:port_number.
This is if you are using Chrome browser.
If you are using firefox(recommended as it's really convenient), then you can open the link(which has your PC name) directly, which is displayed after executing the "tensorboard --logdir=logs/" command in cmd, i.e; http://name:port_number will work here.
(name here refers to the PC or user name)

Answer 7

I don't know if that's the case, but tensorboard has some visualization problems in several browsers. Try to connect to http://172.17.0.2:8080 with a different browser (for example, on my macbook, safari doesn't work very well with tensorboard and I use google Chrome).

Answer 8

as stated by 'rodrigo-silveira'
tensorboard --logdir=data/ --host localhost --port 8088
this works for me as well.
just change the name of graph directory. here the directory is data/
writer = tf.summary.FileWriter( 'logs', sess.graph )
here, the directory is logs, so when I typed below command in cmd, below window appeared.
tensorboard --logdir=data/ --host localhost --port 8088
this is the window pop up

Answer 9

you have to change port to the tensorboard port in the right toolbar in Gloud shell

Answer 10

In my case, the port was not open.
Opening the port, helped me. This process was done on Linux.
Here is what I did:
First I checked if the port is open or not.
netstat -tulpn
You can check it by above code.
Then open the port by following code. Just change the port number in place of 8080
sudo /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 8080 -j ACCEPT
sudo iptables-save
This should solve the issue.