Introduction

Foxglove helps robotics teams explore, collaborate on, and make sense of their robots' data – for more intelligent iteration and accelerated development.

Workflows

Foxglove provides a wide array of developer tooling for every step of the robotics development process.

• Record
  • Record multimodal data in a variety of encoding formats (MCAP, ROS 1, ROS 2, Protobuf, etc.)
• Ingest
  • Import recordings from local machines and edge sites into a central cloud repository
• Process
  • Index the data by device, time, and topic
  • Set retention policies to manage your team's data store
  • Configure webhooks to integrate with the rest of your data pipeline
• Visualize
  • Configure panels to understand how your robots sense, think, and act
  • Create shared layouts for tackling repeated visualization and debugging tasks
• Collaborate
  • Annotate logs with metadata and events for easier search and discovery
  • Rely on collective knowledge to triage incidents and analyze the root cause of an issue

Getting started

• Record multimodal data using a variety of supported encoding formats
  • MCAP allows multiple streams of structured and unstructured data in one file (e.g. ROS, Protobuf, JSON Schema, etc.)
• Import local data recordings, organized by timestamp and recording device
• Annotate recordings with metadata and events
• Arrange and configure panels into custom visualization and debugging layouts
• Stream imported data to Foxglove and third-party tools like Jupyter Notebooks for analysis

Links and resources

• Create a free account - Dashboard
• Download the desktop app (for Linux, Windows, and macOS)
• Browse tutorials