Accessing Tensorboard on AWS

Question

I'm trying to access Tensorboard on AWS. Here is my setting :

• Tensorboard : tensorboard --host 0.0.0.0 --logdir=train :

Starting TensorBoard b'39' on port 6006 (You can navigate to http://172.31.18.170:6006)

• AWS Security groups (in):
  • HTTPS TCP 443 0.0.0.0/0
  • Custom_TCP TCP 6006 0.0.0.0/0

However connecting to ec2-blabla.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:6006 I can't see anything, I basically can't connect.

Do you have any idea?

Answer 1

You can use ssh tunneling technique.

In your terminal you can write:

ssh -i /path/to/your/AWS/key/file -NL 6006:localhost:6006 user@host

where user and host are your aws ec2 user and instance specific.

After that you can browse to http://localhost:6006/

Answer 2

1. Run tensorboard in your ec2 terminal (you can custom logdir and port)

   tensorboard --logdir=data/model --port=8080
   

2. Find your workstations public ip (a.b.c.d) address by visiting http://ip4.me/

3. Access the security group configuration assigned to your EC2 and add a custom TCP rule to your inbound traffic.

   

4. Outbound should be set to allow traffic from tensorboard port. (In this case 8080). Or you just allow all outgoing traffic from your EC2 instance

   Protocol       Port Range      Destination      Description   
   All traffic    All             All               0.0.0.0/0
   

5. Use your public DNS to access tensorboard from your workstation

   http://ec2-xx-xxx-xx-xx.compute-1.amazonaws.com:8080/