# What are the recommended practices on how to use DDP with wandb? **URL:** \ **Category:** W&B Help\ **Tags:** wandb\ **Created:** [September 10, 2021, 4:03pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/what-are-the-recommended-practices-on-how-to-use-ddp-with-wandb/502 "2021-09-10T16:03:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![brando](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.wandb.ai/brando/32/199_2.png) [@brando](https://community.wandb.ai/u/brando)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2021, 4:03pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/what-are-the-recommended-practices-on-how-to-use-ddp-with-wandb/502/1 "2021-09-10T16:03:45Z")
I often use distributed data laoders in pytorch DDP and often just check the rank and have only rank 0 log. Is that the recommended way to use DDP and wandb? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![bhutanisanyam1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.wandb.ai/bhutanisanyam1/32/18_2.png) [@bhutanisanyam1](https://community.wandb.ai/u/bhutanisanyam1)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2021, 5:17pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/what-are-the-recommended-practices-on-how-to-use-ddp-with-wandb/502/2 "2021-09-13T17:17:20Z")
[Here](https://docs.wandb.ai/guides/track/advanced/distributed-training#logging-distributed-training-experiments-with-w-and-b) is link to the docs sharing the relevant suggestions. Please let me know incase you have any follow up Qs 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/wandb/original/1X/366b649231631dbab896843020da0056074ac79d.png) [@system](https://community.wandb.ai/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 6:02pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/what-are-the-recommended-practices-on-how-to-use-ddp-with-wandb/502/3 "2022-04-20T18:02:05Z")
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