Logging training and validation loss in tensorboard

There are several different ways you could achieve this, but you’re on the right track with creating different tf.summary.scalar() nodes. Since you must explicitly call SummaryWriter.add_summary() each time you want to log a quantity to the event file, the simplest approach is probably to fetch the appropriate summary node each time you want to get the training or validation accuracy:

accuracy = tf.reduce_mean(correct)

training_summary = tf.summary.scalar("training_accuracy", accuracy)
validation_summary = tf.summary.scalar("validation_accuracy", accuracy)


summary_writer = tf.summary.FileWriter(...)

for step in xrange(NUM_STEPS):

  # Perform a training step....

  if step % LOG_PERIOD == 0:

    # To log training accuracy.
    train_acc, train_summ = sess.run(
        [accuracy, training_summary], 
        feed_dict={images : training_set.images, labels : training_set.labels})
    writer.add_summary(train_summ, step) 

    # To log validation accuracy.
    valid_acc, valid_summ = sess.run(
        [accuracy, validation_summary],
        feed_dict={images : validation_set.images, labels : validation_set.labels})
    writer.add_summary(valid_summ, step)

Alternatively, you could create a single summary op whose tag is a tf.placeholder(tf.string, []) and feed the string "training_accuracy" or "validation_accuracy" as appropriate.