# .dvc/plots missing

**URL:** <https://discuss.dvc.org/t/dvc-plots-missing/1676>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [May 25, 2023, 2:28am UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/dvc-plots-missing/1676 "2023-05-25T02:28:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tom\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tom\_K](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/Tom_K)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 2:28am UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/dvc-plots-missing/1676/1 "2023-05-25T02:28:25Z")

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Hello, I am trying for the first time to use the dvc’s plotting feature. I am able to execute `dvc plots show` - however, my resulting html is blank. I am specifically trying to show training loss. Following along through the dvc course, the templates should be located within `.dvc/plots`. I have no such directory. Perhaps I am overlooking something simple?

 ![Screenshot from 2023-05-24 22-26-48](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/dataversioncontrol/original/1X/3bcd3a4538867c65280a43932d1f854cf751b590.png)

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**Author:** ![aguschin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a4c791/32.png) [@aguschin](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/aguschin)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 7:30am UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/dvc-plots-missing/1676/2 "2023-05-25T07:30:39Z")

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Hi @Tom_K!

AFAIK, `.dvc/plots` was removed and now DVC takes care of templates in a different way. Which DVC version are you using? `dvc --version`

Just to check, `plots/loss.json` isn’t empty?

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**Author:** ![Tom\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tom\_K](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/Tom_K)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 12:00am UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/dvc-plots-missing/1676/3 "2023-05-26T00:00:17Z")

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`plots/loss.json` seems to be a valid json file with the expected content.

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/dataversioncontrol/original/1X/604b1482c9ea6c52b4beaca0a8aec52027f897e0.png)

I would upload either the .json or .html but it is not supported here.

However, for whatever reason it works if I convert to csv. I think I would prefer the json, but it isn’t significant issue.  
 ![visualization](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/dataversioncontrol/original/1X/42d09c2630508a9ad3776eb2b4c62a5ea4e2d49b.png)

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**Author:** ![Tom\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tom\_K](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/Tom_K)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 12:17am UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/dvc-plots-missing/1676/4 "2023-05-26T00:17:53Z")

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Not exactly related - but can these html plot be embedded into a readme.md?

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**Author:** ![aguschin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a4c791/32.png) [@aguschin](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/aguschin)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2023, 8:00am UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/dvc-plots-missing/1676/5 "2023-05-29T08:00:10Z")

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Can you please file a bug in DVC repo for this? So we could reproduce and fix it? Thanks!