Insight (insight_gui)
- Software
- Middleware
- Tool
Insight is a minimalist GTK4 GUI for exploring ROS2 nodes, topics, services, actions, parameters, packages and logs, offered as an alternative to rqt.
- Stale
Source on GitHub: github.com/julianmueller/insight_gui (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit b60df33 (opens in a new tab).
Licenses
- Code
- GPL-3.0-only (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (GPL-3.0-only) at commit b60df33 (opens in a new tab), on 22 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
Copyleft: Modified source must be published.
Labels
- StaleNo commit in 12 months: the newest is from 6 Oct 2025.
What it does
- Browse, inspect and publish or subscribe to ROS2 topics, with messages shown as YAML, JSON or CSV.
- Call ROS2 services and send goals to action servers, viewing responses, feedback and results.
- Inspect and edit node parameters, and browse ROS2 packages and launch files.
- Explore message, service and action interface definitions grouped by package.
- Provides a TF tree view, image viewer, teleop control, a node-topic graph and a logger with severity filtering.
- Includes a Doctor page for system diagnostics, network checks and QoS compatibility analysis.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit b60df33.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- How to start
- The project's README (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Stale: no commit in 12 months
- Newest commit
- 6 Oct 2025 on jazzy
- Latest release
- None published on GitHub
Checked on GitHub on 22 Oct 2026.
Links
Robots that can run 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.
Robotheca lists software as a reference: nothing is hosted or run here, and every fact links to where it was read.