# Wandb locally

**URL:** <https://community.wandb.ai/t/wandb-locally/18256>\
**Category:** W&B Help\
**Tags:** dashboard, projects, wandb\
**Created:** [April 10, 2026, 2:12pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/wandb-locally/18256 "2026-04-10T14:12:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![chaouki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@chaouki](https://community.wandb.ai/u/chaouki)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2026, 2:12pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/wandb-locally/18256/1 "2026-04-10T14:12:58Z")

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I am training an RL algorithm for LLM post-training and would like to track the training process using Weights & Biases.

However, in my company environment, I am not allowed to send any data to external servers for security reasons. Because of this, I tried using W&B in offline mode.

Here is how I initialize it:

```auto
wandb.init(mode="offline", project="PPO", name="LLM_run_1")

```

Unfortunately, this setup does not seem to work as expected, and I am unable to properly track or visualize my runs.

Could you please clarify:

- How to correctly use W&B in a fully offline environment?

- Whether there is a way to visualize runs locally without syncing to the cloud?

- Or if there are recommended best practices for this use case?

Any guidance would be appreciated. Thank you!

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/wandb/original/1X/366b649231631dbab896843020da0056074ac79d.png) [@system](https://community.wandb.ai/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2026, 2:12pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/wandb-locally/18256/2 "2026-04-10T14:12:58Z")

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