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Hi

The closest thing would, as mentioned, Topic Statistics. TopicStatistics monitors period and stamp_age. I don't know if it is supported on windows. TopicsStatistics can be tricky to work with though, to enable topic statistics:

1) Run roscore as normal

2) Enable statistics rosparam set enable_statistics true

3) Only then start your other nodes, you will need at least one subscriber per topic you want to measure. TopicStatistics won't work on topics that have no subscribers.

4) You should see /statistics topic, which is aggregated, all nodes publish to it, so you need to filter out messages you need.

I think TopicStatistics work using timestamps in headers, which means your measures will depend on quality of these timestamps. If both your nodes are on single PC then that should be ok, if nodes span across network, or messages are being generated based on time from external hardware (like laser scanners etc), then your timestamps may be off.