Profiler : No Profile Data was Found in Collab code example

[JaShams]

I am new to Tensorflow, and was trying to figure out how to use the profiler. By following the docs ( https://www.tensorflow.org/tensorboard/tensorboard_profiling_keras ), I got tensorboard working on my remote development machine and could view everything except the profiler output.
I then tried executing the code example mentioned in the doc in Collab ( https://colab.research.google.com/github/tensorflow/tensorboard/blob/master/docs/tensorboard_profiling_keras.ipynb ) only to see the same output.

Is the code example not up to date or is there an issue somewhere else?

Thanks

[rick020]

I am running into the same problem after running the command tensorboard --logdir logs/ System information:

• Azure ML compute instance
• Linux 22.08.19

Environment information

• python=3.8.16
• pip= 22.3.1
• tensorboard=2.10.1
• tensorboard-plugin-profile=2.10.1

Files in logs directory

Tensorboard:

[gxxxh]

I run into the same problem, too

[Pondiniii]

I can confirm that I'm experiencing the same issue 🫤

[caleb1010]

same here. Does anybody know how to solve this? Several months have passed, without even a single reply from the developers.

[zzzaries]

Hey, just took a look, seems the log directory is missing an events file, we will look into fixing this. As a quick workaround for now, please try:

1. download the events.out.tfevents file at https://github.com/tensorflow/profiler/tree/master/demo
2. upload this file to the demo log directory like:

then you should be able to see the profiler:

[lakeyk]

When using the profiler, the logs address should include the run ID. In the original example, this would be: %tensorboard --logdir='logs/20230414-182044'

[ZM-J]

Hey, just took a look, seems the log directory is missing an events file, we will look into fixing this. As a quick workaround for now, please try:

1. download the events.out.tfevents file at https://github.com/tensorflow/profiler/tree/master/demo
2. upload this file to the demo log directory like:

then you should be able to see the profiler:

Hi, I have the same problem showing that "No profile data was found". However, there exists a file events.out.tfevents.1713334799.XX.profile-empty in folder logs/20240417-141935.

My TF version is also 2.10.1, but I try to profile everything in my own computer.

I even tried the advice from @lakeyk , but that still didn't work.

Seems that everything required by tensorboard is present:

│  events.out.tfevents.1713334799.XX.profile-empty
│
├─plugins
│  └─profile
│      └─2024_04_17_06_19_59
│              XX.input_pipeline.pb
│              XX.kernel_stats.pb
│              XX.memory_profile.json.gz
│              XX.overview_page.pb
│              XX.tensorflow_stats.pb
│              XX.trace.json.gz
│              XX.xplane.pb
│
├─train
│      events.out.tfevents.1713334775.XX.40004.0.v2
│
└─validation
        events.out.tfevents.1713334787.XX.40004.1.v2

I'm not sure whether it is an issue of this version of TF or not though.

[lakeyk]

I recommend updating Tensorflow to the latest version. I am able to successfully load the files with the given file structure with version 2.16.1, but am not able to with version 2.10.1.

[ghsanti]

@lakeyk could you share a gist/colab notebook to reproduce it?

Note that the problem in most cases is:

1. Not using the right --logdir path
2. Having correct logdir path but not showing Overview page

• To solve number 1 check the correct --logdir as adviced by @lakeyk, something like %tensorboard --logdir logs/ID in Colab, or w/o % sign from CLI.

• To solve number 2 for CPUs take a look at this code GIST, then Step-Time Graph should show up.

• Note that for GPUs it won't show the Step-Time Graph 😭 but the Tools (dropdown menu) does show other stats. Also the framework ops are shown, but to be honest it's not clear what they show (probably Host to Device communication.)