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PlotJuggler 3.12

PlotJuggler is a tool to visualize time series that is fast, powerful and intuitive.

Noteworthy features:

• Simple Drag & Drop user interface.
• Load data from file.
• Connect to live streaming of data.
• Save the visualization layout and configurations to reuse them later.
• Fast OpenGL visualization.
• Can handle thousands of timeseries and millions of data points.
• Transform your data using a simple editor: derivative, moving average, integral, etc…
• PlotJuggler can be easily extended using plugins.

Data sources (file and streaming)

• Load CSV files.
• Load ULog (PX4).
• Subscribe to many different streaming sources: MQTT, WebSockets, ZeroMQ, UDP, etc.
• Understand data formats such as JSON, CBOR, BSON, Message Pack, etc.
• Well integrated with ROS: open rosbags and/or subscribe to ROS topics (both ROS1 and ROS2).
• Supports the Lab Streaming Layer, that is used by many devices.
• Easily add your custom data source and/or formats…

Transform and analyze your data

PlotJuggler makes it easy to visualize data but also to analyze it. You can manipulate your time series using a simple and extendable Transform Editor.

Alternatively, you may use the Custom Function Editor, which allows you to create Multi-input / Single-output functions using a scripting language based on Lua.

If you are not familiar with Lua, don’t be afraid, you won’t need more than 5 minutes to learn it ;)

Tutorials

To learn how to use PlotJuggler, check the tutorials here:

Tutorial 1	Tutorial 2	Tutorial 3

Supported plugins

Some plugins can be found in a different repository. The individual README files should include all the information needed to compile and use the plugin.

Please submit specific issues, Pull Requests and questions on the related Github repository:

• MQTT DataStreamer.
• Lab Streaming Layer DataStreamer.
• ROS plugins.
• CAN .dbg DataLoader.

If you want a simple example to learn how to write your own plugins, have a look at PlotJuggler/plotjuggler-sample-plugins

Installation

Snap (recommended in Ubuntu, to ROS users too)

The snap contains a version of PlotJuggler that can work with either ROS1 or ROS2.

To install it in Ubuntu 22.04, with ROS2 support, run:

sudo snap install plotjuggler

If you are still using ROS1 (Ubuntu 20.04), install instead:

sudo snap install plotjuggler-ros

Windows Binary installer

This installer does not include ROS plugins.

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Changelog for package plotjuggler

3.12.0 (2025-09-17)

• rosx_introspection updated
• fix minimum cmake
• formatting
• giving up on MCAP
• new reference bar
• Merge pull request #1164 from matthew-t-watson/main Fix atan bug in lua [quat_to_yaw]{.title-ref} and [quat_to_roll]{.title-ref} conversions for lua versions <5.3
• Fix atan bug in quat_to_x conversions
• Contributors: Davide Faconti, Matthew T. Watson

3.11.1 (2025-09-03)

• Update windows.yaml
• Update ubuntu.yaml
• git pushMerge branch 'main' of github.com:facontidavide/PlotJuggler
• refactored Parquet plugin
• CI: rename .deb file before uploading fixes the uploading of the artifacts, without this the file can not be found in the release upload CI: rename .deb file before uploading fixes the uploading of the artifacts, without this the file can not be found in the release upload
• Contributors: Davide Faconti, Georg von Zengen

3.11.0 (2025-08-31)

• Merge pull request #1157 from facontidavide/conan_builds Conan builds

• merge PR #1139 and #1141 (from \@gvz)

• fix mqtt username and password swap (#1159) fixes #1158

• fix parquet

• let CPM download LZ4 and ZSTD

• fix conan builds

• fix(ulog_parser): allow messages without timestamp field (#1154) use a fixed increment when no timestamp is logged

• build debian packages in github actions (#1146)

  • build debian in actions

  * add ubuntu:24.04 build will enable ubuntu builds

  * upload .deb files to releases ---------Co-authored-by: Georg von Zengen <<georg.vonzengen@isaraerospace.com>>

• Add core24 snap (#1100)

  • add core24 snap
  • add snap core24 github action

• rename FindMosquitto.cmake to FindMOSQUITTO.cmake (#1140) fixes #1138 Co-authored-by: Georg von Zengen <<georg.vonzengen@isaraerospace.com>>

• Fix error 127 from linuxdeploy in Docker builds (#1149)

  * dockerfile: set APPIMAGE_EXTRACT_AND_RUN so linuxdeploy-qt works in Docker The Qt plugin is a separate AppImage, and the CLI flag doesn’t propagate. Exporting the env var makes both linuxdeploy and the plugin run in extract-and-run mode, avoiding FUSE and fixing exit code 127 in container builds.

  • dockerfile: fix warning from inconsistent case

• Fix protobuf compilation on linux hosts (#1143)

  • fix PROTOBUF_FOUND for case sentitive systems

  * fix compiler error in ParserProtobuf on linux ---------Co-authored-by: Georg von Zengen <<georg.vonzengen@isaraerospace.com>>

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