diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index baf7a2757..e1d98a82c 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ tqdm>=4.64.0
 # protobuf<=3.20.1  # https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5/issues/8012
 
 # Logging ---------------------------------------------------------------------
-tensorboard>=2.4.1
+# tensorboard>=2.4.1
 # clearml>=1.2.0
 # comet
 
diff --git a/utils/loggers/__init__.py b/utils/loggers/__init__.py
index d428cdba6..9b4c1d13b 100644
--- a/utils/loggers/__init__.py
+++ b/utils/loggers/__init__.py
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ from pathlib import Path
 
 import pkg_resources as pkg
 import torch
-from torch.utils.tensorboard import SummaryWriter
 
 from utils.general import LOGGER, colorstr, cv2
 from utils.loggers.clearml.clearml_utils import ClearmlLogger
@@ -20,6 +19,11 @@ from utils.torch_utils import de_parallel
 LOGGERS = ('csv', 'tb', 'wandb', 'clearml', 'comet')  # *.csv, TensorBoard, Weights & Biases, ClearML
 RANK = int(os.getenv('RANK', -1))
 
+try:
+    from torch.utils.tensorboard import SummaryWriter
+except ImportError:
+    SummaryWriter = lambda *args: None  # None = SummaryWriter(str)
+
 try:
     import wandb