Tensorboard not found as magic function in jupyter

Question

I want to run tensorboard in jupyter using the latest tensorflow 2.0.0a0. With the tensorboard version 1.13.1, and python 3.6.

using

... %tensorboard --logdir {logs_base_dir}

I get the error :

UsageError: Line magic function %tensorboard not found

Do you have an idea what the problem could be? It seems that all versions are up to date and the command seems correct too.

Thanks

Answer 1

The extension needs to be loaded first:

%load_ext tensorboard.notebook
%tensorboard --logdir {logs_base_dir}

UPDATE

For newer TF versions (tensorflow>=1.14.0 & tensorflow != 2.0.0a0) (newer than TF2-alpha) use

%load_ext tensorboard

Answer 2

If you are using TF 2.0 you can execute the code below from your notebook environment, prior to your magic command:

%load_ext tensorboard