swri_console
- Software
- Middleware
- Tool
A ROS console log viewer, an alternative to rqt_console, built to stay responsive when handling heavy log output from large systems.
Made by Southwest Research Institute Robotics.
Source on GitHub: github.com/swri-robotics/swri_console (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit 66c3899 (opens in a new tab).
Licenses
- Code
- BSD-3-Clause (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (BSD-3-Clause) at commit 66c3899 (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
What it does
- Handles thousands of logs per second and keeps millions in memory while remaining responsive.
- Select which nodes to monitor with ctrl or shift click.
- Filter messages by substring or regular expression, and show, hide or colorize them by severity.
- Save and load log messages as text files, or read them from the /rosout topic in a bag file.
- Right-click nodes to change their logger levels dynamically, which requires ROS 2 Iron or newer.
- Supports ROS 2 distributions from Humble up to rolling.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit 66c3899.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- How to start
- The project's README (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Active: a commit in the last 90 days
- Newest commit
- 12 Sept 2026 on ros2-devel
- Latest release
- 2.4.0 (12 Sept 2026)
Checked on GitHub on 16 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.
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