An update for anyone who might find themselves with the same problem:
I decided to end my misery over tensorboard and have switched allegiance to visdom - it’s been an absolute breeze.
Linking a very useful github which helped me quickly set up visdom for the plotting of accuracy and loss graphs:

  
      
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A simple tutorial to use Visdom to plot your PyTorch training graphs - noagarcia/visdom-tutorial