ROS Graph Monitor
- Software
- Middleware
- Tool
A set of ROS 2 packages that monitor an entire ROS node graph, publishing periodic snapshots and diagnostics about its health.
Made by ROS 2 Tooling Working Groups.
Source on GitHub: github.com/ros-tooling/graph-monitor (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit d6950db (opens in a new tab).
Licenses
- Code
- Apache-2.0 (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (Apache-2.0) at commit d6950db (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
What it does
- Provides a library and node that monitor the ROS graph, publish periodic snapshots, and emit diagnostics from health analyses.
- Includes messages for reporting topic statistics.
- Includes an RMW wrapper that efficiently gathers and reports global topic statistics.
- The monitor node publishes the graph on the /rosgraph topic as rosgraph_msgs/Graph messages.
- A Foxglove extension exists that can visualize the rosgraph messages published by the monitor node.
- Packages are built for ROS 2 Humble, Jazzy, Kilted and Rolling.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit d6950db.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- How to start
- The project's README (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Active: a commit in the last 90 days
- Newest commit
- 15 Oct 2026 on main
- Latest release
- None published on GitHub
Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.
Links
Robots on Robotheca that use it
No robot on Robotheca is linked to it yet. Links come from a robot's robot.yaml, from its dependency files read as text, or from Robotheca's editors.
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