Foxglove SDK
- Software
- Middleware
- Tool
A multi-language SDK for logging and visualizing multimodal data in Foxglove, with a Rust core and Python and C++ bindings. It can stream live data or write MCAP files.
Made by Foxglove.
Source on GitHub: github.com/foxglove/foxglove-sdk (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit e4c7210 (opens in a new tab).
Licenses
- Code
- MIT (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (MIT) at commit e4c7210 (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
What it does
- Streams live data to Foxglove over a local WebSocket.
- Logs data to MCAP files for visualization or analysis.
- Provides built-in Foxglove message types for common visualizations, and supports custom messages in supported serialization formats.
- Offers prebuilt libraries and Python wheels, so no Rust development environment is needed.
- Ships ROS packages for several ROS 2 distributions, including message types and a ROS bridge.
- Includes a TypeScript schemas package and raw schema definitions for ROS, Protobuf, Flatbuffer, JSON, and OMG IDL.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit e4c7210.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- How to start
- The project's website (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Active: a commit in the last 90 days
- Newest commit
- 15 Oct 2026 on main
- Latest release
- ros-v3.6.1 (14 Oct 2026)
Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.
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