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PlotJuggler 3.10

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

3.10.11 (2025-07-26)

• Datatamer fix (#1131)
• new clang format
• Squashed commit of the following: Author: Maximilien Naveau <<maximilien.naveau@pal-robotics.com>> Date: Thu Jul 24 12:21:39 2025 +0200 Solve the PALStatistics message parsing in case several topic are published.
• Fix Issues on MacOS Compilation (#1125)
• Add no splash to settings (#1122)
  • Added option to skip splash screen to settings ini file
  • Added option to preference screen
• provide install rule again from catkin build (#1124) Otherwise catkin install workspaces include everything except for the binary...
• try fix LZ4/ZSTD (#1121)
• Contributors: Connor Anderson, Davide Faconti, Michael Görner, thenoname

3.10.10 (2025-07-11)

• cosmetic change in Preferences
• Fmt cpm (#1120)
• Make export plot size an application param
• Add an action to plot a whole tab
• fix missing submodule
• fix Win CI
• Contributors: Blaise Le Coquil, Davide Faconti

3.10.9 (2025-07-08)

• add Arrow to conan and fix Windows CI (#1109)
• modernize cmake
• apply formatting to cmakelists
• Fix compilation with recent protobuf (#1108)
• Change behavior of DataLoadCSV::readDataFromFile to skip incomplete/corrupted lines.
• Fix line numbers in DataLoadCVS::readDataFromFile. Line numbers within the error/warning messages boxes didn't show the correct line numbers if the CVS file contained empty lines.
• Contributors: Davide Faconti, Silvio Traversaro, Valentin Platzgummer

3.10.8 (2025-06-26)

• fix ROS package
• Feat/cmakelist namespace (#1099)
  • add namespace when using plotjuggler, include macrodependency
  • use namespace
• Fix core22 snap by updating CMake config and pinning snapcraft to 7.x (#1098)
• fix linking to roscpp when required (#1102)
• minor speed improvement
• avoid overhead in GUI when loading MCAP
• WIP changes
• fix windows compilation (#1094)
• Contributors: Davide Faconti, Michael Görner, giusebar

3.10.7 (2025-06-16)

• fix mcap on ROS2
• update sol2
• Add button to delete custom timeseries (#1093)
  • Add button to delete custom timeseries
  • Remove tailing whitespace
• Contributors: Davide Faconti, Zach Davis

3.10.5 (2025-05-25)

• More cmake fixes
• Contributors: Davide Faconti

3.10.4 (2025-05-22)

• add backward again, fix #1079
• Contributors: Davide Faconti

3.10.3 (2025-05-21)

• cmake fixes (again)
• Cmake cleanups (#1076)
• Add missing find_package for plojuggler_qwt (#1064)

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