Google Shutting Down TensorBoard.dev

18 points by reaperman ↗ HN
TensorBoard.dev is shutting down. To retain your data, export your TensorBoard.dev experiments by Dec 31st, 2023.

Dear TensorBoard.dev User,

You are receiving this email because you have uploaded at least one experiment to TensorBoard.dev, our free hosted service for sharing TensorBoard experiments.

You can view a list of your TensorBoard.dev experiments at tensorboard.dev/experiments/.

What do I need to know?

TensorBoard.dev will be shutting down. The website will become inaccessible starting on Dec 1st, 2023, and all uploaded data will be permanently removed after Dec 31st, 2023.

You can continue to use TensorBoard via our open source project, which is unaffected by this shutdown, with the exception of the removal of the tensorboard dev subcommand in our command line tool.

What do I need to do?

Action Required: Export your TensorBoard.dev experiment data, if you need to retain a copy and do not have the original files that were uploaded. This can be done by running the following command, which will export all your TensorBoard.dev experiments as individual JSON data files:

tensorboard dev export --outdir ./tbdev_export

If you encounter an error when launching the export command, please refresh your login credentials, which can be done by running the following command, and then retrying the export command above:

tensorboard dev auth revoke

If you have any questions or require assistance, please contact tensorboard.dev-support@google.com for support.

Thanks for choosing TensorBoard.dev.

— The TensorBoard Team

Google LLC 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043

You have received this mandatory service announcement to update you on important changes related to your TensorBoard.dev account.

8 comments

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I mean at this point, lol. I need to start looking into migrating off gmail before it shuts down.
I think free gMail is safe. It serves ads. The paid service is probably a bigger target.
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I had the same concern. I now use Gmail as my mail client but my email addresses live at Fastmail. So when Googles does something crazy to Gmail it will just be a matter of switching to another frontend.
Entering Hacker news and this item flashed. Was curious so I searched for "tensorboard.dev" and got 3 results: announcement (3y ago), show case (2y ago) and shutdown (now). Modern Google in three acts.
This is why I never use google products for anything mission critical. They cancel all sorts of projects, even when it's against their business interests (arguably). From the outside these projects seem more like pawns for executive advancement rather than products they care about, let alone their customers.
It's gotta look like that even from the inside. How else do you explain Hangouts, Wave, Plus, Chat, Talk, Meet, Allo, Duo, Messages, Voice, Buzz?