diff --git a/spacy/errors.py b/spacy/errors.py
index f8a461dbd..fc98fdaa6 100644
--- a/spacy/errors.py
+++ b/spacy/errors.py
@@ -487,6 +487,9 @@ class Errors:
 
     # New errors added in v3.x
 
+    E880 = ("The 'wandb' library could not be found - did you install it? "
+            "Alternatively, specify the 'ConsoleLogger' in the 'training.logger' "
+            "config section, instead of the 'WandbLogger'.")
     E885 = ("entity_linker.set_kb received an invalid 'kb_loader' argument: expected "
             "a callable function, but got: {arg_type}")
     E886 = ("Can't replace {name} -> {tok2vec} listeners: path '{path}' not "
diff --git a/spacy/training/loggers.py b/spacy/training/loggers.py
index 79459a89b..8acf2783c 100644
--- a/spacy/training/loggers.py
+++ b/spacy/training/loggers.py
@@ -103,7 +103,11 @@ def console_logger(progress_bar: bool = False):
 
 @registry.loggers("spacy.WandbLogger.v1")
 def wandb_logger(project_name: str, remove_config_values: List[str] = []):
-    import wandb
+    try:
+        import wandb
+        from wandb import init, log, join  # test that these are available
+    except ImportError:
+        raise ImportError(Errors.E880)
 
     console = console_logger(progress_bar=False)