Exporting and visualizing data

Use Foxglove Data Platform's web console to export your data as MCAP (.mcap) or ROS 1 (.bag) files and to visualize it in Foxglove Studio.

Once you've imported data to Foxglove Data Platform, you can export parts of it as a file or stream the data directly to debugging and visualization tools like Foxglove Studio.

Download or visualize a custom time range

Use the Timeline view to find the data you are interested in:

search

Use the date picker or the "year", "month", or "week" tabs to navigate to time ranges of interest. Click any column in the timeline to zoom in on the data you want.

After locating the data you want in the "hour" view, click a coverage bar or select a time range by dragging and clicking the selected region:

export via Timeline

Download this data as a .bag or .mcap file, or launch it in Studio for immediate visualization.

Download via the CLI

$ foxglove data export \
  --device-id dev_flm75pLkfzUBX2DH \
  --start 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z \
  --end 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z \
  --output-format mcap0 \
  --topics /gps/fix,/gps/fix_velocity > output.mcap

Visualize imports and events

Select any file import on the Files page or event on the Events page to "View in Studio", for immediate visualization:

view in Foxglove Studio