Basic Seats

We’re excited to announce a new Basic Seat type, allowing you to share visualization links across your team without worrying about incremental seat costs. Whether you’re bringing executives, field ops, or contractors into your Foxglove workspace, Basic Seats let you extend access to your data and encourage collaboration across your team.

All Foxglove paid plans now include unlimited Basic Seats at no additional cost!

What are Basic Seats?

Until now, every user in Foxglove had the same level of access to all features. Today, by popular demand, we’re expanding to a two-tier system:

Developer Seat

Developer Seats are the status quo. They include:

• Full access to all product capabilities
• Access to all visualization data sources, including local files and WebSocket data sources
• Ability to create and edit visualization layouts

Basic Seat (free!)

• Access to all Data Platform features
• Able to visualize cloud data stored or indexed by Foxglove
• Read-only access to visualization layouts
• No access to visualize local files or WebSocket data sources
• No ability to create or edit layouts

The key difference? Users with a Basic Seat can visualize cloud data using existing layouts, but they cannot create or modify layouts, and they cannot visualize local data. This makes them perfect for occasional users inspecting a link shared among team members.

Importantly, seat types are independent from user roles, so users with a Basic Seat can also be an organization admin. This means you can now invite Lucy from finance to manage your Foxglove subscription, without being charged extra.

Who benefits from Basic Seats?

Anyone who needs access to robotics data on your team, but doesn’t need full authoring or visualization editing. Some of these roles might include:

• Operations and triage teams reviewing events against pre-built layouts as part of daily workflows
• Field and test teams inspecting data from deployments, test runs, or customer sites without needing to customize layouts
• Leaders and cross-functional stakeholders who click into a shared link to review a specific event or customer issue, without needing a seat they’ll use twice a month
• Contractors and external partners who need temporary access to your data but don’t need to build custom visualizations

Pricing & administration

Basic Seats are available on all paid plans at no additional cost.

Admins can manage seat types for their team members directly in settings, just like managing roles today. Users with a Basic Seat are able to request an upgrade to a Developer Seat if they need more capabilities, and admins will receive a notification to approve or deny the request.

Getting started

Basic Seats are available now. To assign Basic Seats to your team members, head to your Member Settings page and adjust seat types as needed.

Have questions? Check out the seat type docs or reach out to our team - we’d love to help!