swri_console

master	dashing-devel

swri_console is an alternative to rqt_console for viewing the ROS console output. swri_console was written to scale well to large systems with heavy console output. It stays responsive under fire and allows users to quickly find information to track down problems.

Installation

The master branch compiles and runs on ROS Kinetic and Melodic; the dashing-devel branch compiles and runs on ROS 2 Dashing and Eloquent.

To install a binary release:

sudo apt install ros-${ROSDISTRO}-swri-console

Usage

ROS 1:

rosrun swri_console swri_console

ROS 2:

ros2 run swri_console swri_console

Features

• High performance; swri_console handles receiving thousands of logs per second and storing millions in memory while staying responsive
• Ctrl or shift-click to quickly select which nodes you want to monitor
• Hide or show log messages based on substring matches, or, if you need more power, regular expressions
• Hide, show, and colorize log messages based on severity
• Save and load log messages to text files
• Save and load log messages directly from the /rosout topic in a bag file
  • Not supported in ROS 2 yet
• Right-click on nodes to dynamically set their logger levels
  • Not supported in ROS 2 yet