234 posts tagged with "Foxglove"

🤖 Agent sidebar: a built-in agent to work on your data Beta​

Foxglove's built-in agent builds layouts, writes user scripts, runs your request as a query on Search, and answers questions about your data. Read-only tools run on their own; anything that makes a change waits for your approval. The agent sidebar is available on all plans. Read more about Agent sidebar.

🔀 Comparison mode: debug what changed between runs​

Select two or more recordings, sessions, or events from real-world logs or simulations, and click Compare to put them on one shared visualization timeline. Each source takes a slot labeled A, B, C, and so on; Plot, State Transitions, and Map draw every slot at once, while single-source panels such as 3D show one at a time. Comparison mode is generally available on Pro, Enterprise, and Academic plans, for basic and developer seats. Read more about Comparison mode.

🔎 Semantic search: find image frames and actions by describing them Beta​

Query your data by describing the action your robot took (semantic search over video embeddings) or what's in the frame (image embeddings). Combine a visual prompt with other query fields, for example visual("package dropped") and /robot_state == autonomous, to search recordings' image and video topics alongside other log data. Visual search is in beta on Pro and Enterprise plans; contact sales for access. Read more about Semantic search.

📊 Grafana integration: query Foxglove data in your dashboards​

The Foxglove data source plugin, published in the Grafana plugin catalog, turns a FoxQL expression such as /imu.linear_acceleration.x into a time series, using the same query engine as the Search page. The plugin queries the Foxglove data platform directly, so you can build Grafana dashboards on your data in Foxglove. Contact sales for access. Read more about the Grafana plugin.

🗄️ Bring your own storage: general availability​

Bring your own storage (BYOS) is generally available (GA) across AWS, GCP, and Azure. Keep your recordings in the cloud storage bucket they already live in while Foxglove indexes each file in place so you can query and stream it, without duplicating or moving your data. Contact sales to get started. Read more about Foxglove Cloud, bring your own storage.

🔌 Desktop MCP server: general availability​

The desktop app's local Model Context Protocol (MCP) server is generally available, with access to the same tool catalog as the agent sidebar. Turn on Local MCP server under Settings → Personal → Agents & MCP. The Desktop MCP server is available on Pro, Enterprise, and Academic plans. Read more about Desktop MCP.

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🔌 Desktop MCP server​

The Foxglove desktop app can run a local MCP (Model Context Protocol) server so external coding assistants like Claude Code, Cursor, Claude Desktop, and other MCP clients can see and control Foxglove. Your agent can access the Data Platform, search your organization's recordings, sessions, and events, build layouts, write user scripts, control playback, and search the docs. Turn on Local MCP server under Settings → Agents & MCP; it needs a Pro or Enterprise plan and a developer seat. Read more about Connect your own agent (MCP).

🔍 Search with FoxQL and Gallery previews​

Find the right recording faster: write a FoxQL query over devices, metadata, topics, and message fields, then review matches as Gallery preview cards before you open one. List and Timeline views stay one click away. Read more about Search.

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📈 Plot panel: one sub-series per array index​

Messages often pack related values, such as accelerometer axes or joint positions, into a numeric array. The Plot panel's timestamp plots offer an Array expansion setting: choose By index to draw one sub-series per array element, labeled with its source index. None remains the default, so existing layouts keep their current behavior, and ranged slices retain their source indices. Read more about Array expansion.

🔍 Search from the Raw Messages panel​

Hover over a value in the Raw Messages panel and choose View in Search to open Search with a query for that message path and value, scoped to the recording's time range. The same action on the message header searches for any message on that path. Search returns results from recordings that have been indexed. Read more about Search.

⌨️ Keyboard shortcuts for message stepping​

Read a topic message by message without reaching for the mouse. With the Raw Messages panel selected, Alt+[ and Alt+] (Option on macOS) step to the previous and next message on that panel's path. Read more about Message stepping.

🔗 Visualize multiple recordings merged as one​

Select two or more imported recordings on the Recordings page and choose Visualize to open them merged into a single timeline, without creating a session first. Topics from every recording share one playback range, and the app bar lists each recording. The Source info sidebar opens with a Merged section spanning the full combined range, followed by the name and time range of each source.

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📡 Remote Access: stream live robots from anywhere​

Remote Access is now generally available on Pro and Enterprise plans, bringing your live robots into Foxglove from anywhere. Connect to any device in your fleet over the cloud and stream its data in real time, with no VPN, port forwarding, or shared network required. Open the connection dialog, search your fleet, pick a live device, and you're streaming in seconds. Reconnect in a click when a session ends, and see which devices are online at a glance with live status and last-seen indicators.

🧵 Toggle individual lines in a dynamic series​

Dynamic series draw one line per label from an array of {label, value} objects. Each line now gets its own visibility toggle in the legend, so you can show or hide individual labels without turning off the whole series. This works in both the Plot and State Transitions panels.

⏯️ Step through messages in the Raw Messages panel​

When viewing a recording, the Raw Messages panel can now seek the playhead to the next or previous message on its path. When several messages share the latest timestamp, you can page through them, and an empty state offers a "Seek to next message" link when nothing matches at the current time.

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🔢 Numeric timestamps in Plot and State Transitions​

The Plot and State Transitions panels can now use a numeric timestamp field as the x-axis. Each value reads as seconds, so apply a message-path modifier (for example, .@mul(1e-9) for nanoseconds) when your data uses different units.

📊 Plot legend in any chart corner​

The Plot panel's floating legend can now sit in any of the four chart corners. Pick Top left, Top right, Bottom left, or Bottom right from the panel settings to keep the legend clear of the data you want to read.

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📊 Plot panel: secondary y-axis​

Plot panels can now show two y-axes. Assign each series to the primary or secondary axis from panel settings, then compare signals with different units or ranges without splitting them into separate panels.

🔎 Data search improvements​

Recent and saved searches are available to everyone on the Search page. Reopen queries you ran recently, save searches for yourself or your organization, and reuse them from the Search toolbar. Searches now also show query progress and size estimates while results load, and Topic fields can match recordings where a topic exists using file-level metadata.

🔐 Layout management in the public API​

The public REST API now supports managing shared layouts with an API key, including list, retrieve, create, update, delete, and restore operations. See the API reference for the full surface.

curl -X POST https://api.foxglove.dev/v1/layouts \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOXGLOVE_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
    "name": "Fleet Diagnostics",
    "permission": "ORG_WRITE",
    "data": { ... }
  }'

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📈 Plot panel: dynamic { label, value } series​

The Plot panel now renders one independent sub-series per distinct label when a series message path resolves to an array of { label, value } objects — the same dynamic-series pattern introduced for State Transitions in 2.53.0. Read more about Dynamic series.

🔀 State Transitions: drag-and-drop reordering​

You can now reorder State Transitions series and custom states in panel settings using drag-and-drop, matching Plot series and other settings lists.

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This release contains a bug fix for video export.

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📡 Remote Access for live robot data​

Pro and Enterprise plans can now stream live camera, lidar, and telemetry data from robots in the field, with the same multimodal views you use today for recorded logs. A single cloud connection per robot supports multiple concurrent viewers, with a bidirectional channel for sending teleoperation commands back to the robot. Remote Access is in public beta. Read more about Remote Access.

🎬 MP4 video export for layouts​

Enterprise plans can now export the current layout and data source to an MP4 video at a configurable frame rate and playback speed. Each frame waits for every panel to finish rendering before capture, so the output reflects the full panel state without buffering artifacts. Video export is available in the desktop app.

📊 Dynamic series in the State Transitions panel​

The State Transitions panel can now show multiple state rows from a single message path. Point a path at an array of state entries — like /metrics.metrics[:] — and each entry's label becomes a row name, with the value driving the row's colored bands. Filter rows by label using the standard message-path filter syntax, such as /metrics.metrics[:]{label=="speed"}. Read more about Dynamic series.

🔀 Drag-and-drop reordering for Plot series and other panel settings​

You can now reorder settings rows using drag-and-drop or the row action menu. The Plot panel's series list supports this, along with the Indicator panel's range rules and the Image panel's overlay topics. The order persists with the layout.

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📐 3D measurement tool: snap to scene objects​

The 3D panel's measurement tool can now snap endpoints to scene objects so you can measure between exact features instead of approximating with the cursor. Hold Alt / Option to enable snapping for that endpoint. Combine snapped and free-space endpoints in a single measurement, and read out per-axis projections alongside the total distance.

🕰️ Absolute timestamps in Plot and State Transitions​

Plot and State Transitions panels can now display absolute timestamps on the x-axis instead of seconds elapsed since the start of playback. Pick Absolute under the new Timestamp display setting and ticks render using the global time format and timezone.

🕒 Per-topic timestamp sync in 3D and Image panels​

The 3D and Image panels' "Sync timestamps" (formerly Strict time sync) toggle is no longer all-or-nothing. Each topic now has its own Sync opt-in in the Topics section. Mix high-frequency and low-frequency topics in the same view and choose which ones must line up before rendering, instead of a single slow topic blocking everything. In the Image panel, the primary image and its visible ImageAnnotations always sync together; in 3D, layouts with sync enabled now need to opt topics in.

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