diff --git a/train.py b/train.py
index 047a8256..444be066 100755
--- a/train.py
+++ b/train.py
@@ -347,13 +347,6 @@ def main():
     utils.setup_default_logging()
     args, args_text = _parse_args()
 
-    if args.log_wandb:
-        if has_wandb:
-            wandb.init(project=args.experiment, config=args)
-        else:
-            _logger.warning("You've requested to log metrics to wandb but package not found. "
-                            "Metrics not being logged to wandb, try `pip install wandb`")
-
     args.prefetcher = not args.no_prefetcher
     args.distributed = False
     if 'WORLD_SIZE' in os.environ:
@@ -373,6 +366,13 @@ def main():
         _logger.info('Training with a single process on 1 GPUs.')
     assert args.rank >= 0
 
+    if args.rank == 0 and args.log_wandb:
+        if has_wandb:
+            wandb.init(project=args.experiment, config=args)
+        else:
+            _logger.warning("You've requested to log metrics to wandb but package not found. "
+                            "Metrics not being logged to wandb, try `pip install wandb`")
+
     # resolve AMP arguments based on PyTorch / Apex availability
     use_amp = None
     if args.amp: