Only released in EOL distros:
Package Summary
The rosprofiler package provides the rosprofiler and rosgrapher tools. These tools run as nodes publishing their collected information on ros topics. They have been designed to work with the Topic Statistics feature found in ROS Indigo to provide a complete picture of a ROS System.
- Maintainer status: maintained
- Maintainer: Dan Brooks <dan AT osrfoundation DOT org>
- Author: Dan Brooks <dan AT osrfoundation DOT org>
- License: Apache 2.0
- Bug / feature tracker: http://github.com/mrdanbrooks/rosprofiler/issues
- Source: git https://github.com/osrf/rosprofiler.git (branch: master)
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rosprofiler package
The rosprofiler package provides tools for collecting and publishing information and statistics about node processes and the hosts they are running on, as well as information about system connectivity. These tools are designed to work together with topic statstics tools released in ROS Indigo to give a complete picture of the ROS system that is published over ros topics. Other ROS nodes can then subscribe to this information, or it can be recorded using rosbag and played back later for analysis.
The rosprofiler package is commonly used with rqt_graphprofiler.
rosprofiler node
The rosprofiler node publishes statistics about the host machine and corresponding node processes on which it is run. In a distributed system where nodes are running on multiple host machines, rosprofiler should be run once on each machine.
Running rosprofiler
Before running rosprofiler, topic statistics must be enabled. To collect statistics about all topics, this should be done before running any other nodes.
rosparam set enable_statistics true
Once enabled, rosprofiler can be started using
rosrun rosprofiler rosprofiler
Published Topics
/host_statistics (ros_statistics_msgs/HostStatistics)
- Host machine information and resource statistics
- Process information and statistics for each node running on the host
rosgrapher node
The rosgrapher node publishes information about the ROS System State queried from the ROS Master and individual nodes. Unlike the rosprofiler node, the rosgrapher tries to collect information about all the nodes and topics in the system. Therefore, it is only necessary to run the rosgrapher once even if there are nodes on multiple host machines.
Running rosgrapher
rosrun rosprofiler rosgrapher
Published Topics
/topology (ros_topology_msgs/Graph)
- Information about node and topic connectivity
