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A Developer's Guide to Debugging JAX on Cloud TPUs: Essential Tools and Techniques- Google Developers Blog

Jan 5, 2026Zhenzhen (Jen) Tan, Brian Kang, Ashish Narasimham
A Developer's Guide to Debugging JAX on Cloud TPUs: Essential Tools and Techniques- Google Developers Blog
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Introduces essential debugging and profiling tools for JAX on Cloud TPUs: libtpu (TPU Runtime), JAX/jaxlib (framework), verbose logging flags (TPU_VMODULE, TPU_MIN_LOG_LEVEL, TF_CPP_MIN_LOG_LEVEL, TPU_STDERR_LOG_LEVEL), TPU Monitoring Library (programmatic metrics like duty_cycle_pct), and tpu-info CLI (real-time memory and utilization). Details log file locations and retrieval methods across TPU VMs. Provides example commands and code snippets for enabling logging, using the monitoring library, and running tpu-info.

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