Foxglove

With Foxglove, developers can visualize, inspect, upload and manage multimodal data to speed up robotics development. It provides interactive, rich visualizations to explore live or recorded data like images and point clouds from robotics frameworks like ROS 1 and ROS 2. Foxglove lets robotics teams speed up their work by uploading recordings to a private data lake for easy storage and analysis.

Foxglove has a variety of panels for inspecting data, including:

• 3D: Visualize 3D scenes with point clouds, transforms and a world map.
• Diagnostics: See aggregated diagnostic messages.
• Image: Visualize images from multiple camera feeds with overlaid bounding boxes and labels.
• Plot: Plot message values over time or arrays of values at each timestamp.
• Publish: Control robots by publishing messages back to live stacks.
• Raw Messages: Drill down into individual messages.
• State Transitions: See and detect changes in robot state.

You can also create custom layouts for your team to better analyze data. Foxglove supports a range of file formats, including MCAP, and lets you manage data with optimized file partitioning and indexing. You can also interact with your robot models in 3D, visualize URDF robot models and connect to ROS robots with Rosbridge.

Foxglove has a range of pricing tiers to accommodate different users:

• Free: Good for hobbyists and individuals, with visualization of live or recorded data, up to 3 users, 10 devices and 10GB storage.
• Starter: Good for small teams, with unlimited devices, 100GB+ storage and the ability to share layouts with the team ($18 per user/month).
• Team: Good for larger teams, with features like device agents, custom properties, webhooks and single sign-on ($42 per user/month).
• Enterprise: Good for large companies, with self-hosted deployments, private Slack support, Okta authentication and volume discounts ($90 per user/month).

Foxglove also has a free plan for students, researchers and educators. Whether you're working on a solo project or part of a large team, Foxglove can help accelerate robotics development with powerful visualization and data management abilities.

Published on August 3, 2024