diff --git a/docs/useful_tools.md b/docs/useful_tools.md
index 514b5680ee..7b2e3fde1e 100644
--- a/docs/useful_tools.md
+++ b/docs/useful_tools.md
@@ -62,3 +62,25 @@ python tools/pytorch2onnx.py ${CONFIG_FILE} --checkpoint ${CHECKPOINT_FILE} --ou
 ```shell
 python tools/print_config.py ${CONFIG} [-h] [--options ${OPTIONS [OPTIONS...]}]
 ```
+
+### Plot training logs
+
+`tools/analyze_logs.py` plot s loss/mIoU curves given a training log file. `pip install seaborn` first to install the dependency.
+
+```shell
+python tools/analyze_logs.py xxx.log.json [--keys ${KEYS}] [--legend ${LEGEND}] [--backend ${BACKEND}] [--style ${STYLE}] [--out ${OUT_FILE}]
+```
+
+Examples:
+
+- Plot the mIoU, mAcc, aAcc metrics.
+
+  ```shell
+  python tools/analyze_logs.py log.json --keys mIoU mAcc aAcc --legend mIoU mAcc aAcc
+  ```
+
+- Plot loss metric.
+
+  ```shell
+  python tools/analyze_logs.py log.json --keys loss --legend loss
+  ```
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 708fb4ce33..f4147e0f9a 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -8,6 +8,6 @@ line_length = 79
 multi_line_output = 0
 known_standard_library = setuptools
 known_first_party = mmseg
-known_third_party = PIL,cityscapesscripts,cv2,detail,matplotlib,mmcv,numpy,onnxruntime,oss2,pytest,scipy,terminaltables,torch
+known_third_party = PIL,cityscapesscripts,cv2,detail,matplotlib,mmcv,numpy,onnxruntime,oss2,pytest,scipy,seaborn,terminaltables,torch
 no_lines_before = STDLIB,LOCALFOLDER
 default_section = THIRDPARTY
diff --git a/tools/analyze_logs.py b/tools/analyze_logs.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c3a468b554
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/analyze_logs.py
@@ -0,0 +1,123 @@
+"""Modified from https://github.com/open-
+mmlab/mmdetection/blob/master/tools/analysis_tools/analyze_logs.py."""
+import argparse
+import json
+from collections import defaultdict
+
+import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
+import seaborn as sns
+
+
+def plot_curve(log_dicts, args):
+    if args.backend is not None:
+        plt.switch_backend(args.backend)
+    sns.set_style(args.style)
+    # if legend is None, use {filename}_{key} as legend
+    legend = args.legend
+    if legend is None:
+        legend = []
+        for json_log in args.json_logs:
+            for metric in args.keys:
+                legend.append(f'{json_log}_{metric}')
+    assert len(legend) == (len(args.json_logs) * len(args.keys))
+    metrics = args.keys
+
+    num_metrics = len(metrics)
+    for i, log_dict in enumerate(log_dicts):
+        epochs = list(log_dict.keys())
+        for j, metric in enumerate(metrics):
+            print(f'plot curve of {args.json_logs[i]}, metric is {metric}')
+            plot_epochs = []
+            plot_iters = []
+            plot_values = []
+            for epoch in epochs:
+                epoch_logs = log_dict[epoch]
+                if metric not in epoch_logs.keys():
+                    continue
+                if metric in ['mIoU', 'mAcc', 'aAcc']:
+                    plot_epochs.append(epoch)
+                    plot_values.append(epoch_logs[metric][0])
+                else:
+                    for idx in range(len(epoch_logs[metric])):
+                        plot_iters.append(epoch_logs['iter'][idx])
+                        plot_values.append(epoch_logs[metric][idx])
+            ax = plt.gca()
+            label = legend[i * num_metrics + j]
+            if metric in ['mIoU', 'mAcc', 'aAcc']:
+                ax.set_xticks(plot_epochs)
+                plt.xlabel('epoch')
+                plt.plot(plot_epochs, plot_values, label=label, marker='o')
+            else:
+                plt.xlabel('iter')
+                plt.plot(plot_iters, plot_values, label=label, linewidth=0.5)
+        plt.legend()
+        if args.title is not None:
+            plt.title(args.title)
+    if args.out is None:
+        plt.show()
+    else:
+        print(f'save curve to: {args.out}')
+        plt.savefig(args.out)
+        plt.cla()
+
+
+def parse_args():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Analyze Json Log')
+    parser.add_argument(
+        'json_logs',
+        type=str,
+        nargs='+',
+        help='path of train log in json format')
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '--keys',
+        type=str,
+        nargs='+',
+        default=['mIoU'],
+        help='the metric that you want to plot')
+    parser.add_argument('--title', type=str, help='title of figure')
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '--legend',
+        type=str,
+        nargs='+',
+        default=None,
+        help='legend of each plot')
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '--backend', type=str, default=None, help='backend of plt')
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '--style', type=str, default='dark', help='style of plt')
+    parser.add_argument('--out', type=str, default=None)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    return args
+
+
+def load_json_logs(json_logs):
+    # load and convert json_logs to log_dict, key is epoch, value is a sub dict
+    # keys of sub dict is different metrics
+    # value of sub dict is a list of corresponding values of all iterations
+    log_dicts = [dict() for _ in json_logs]
+    for json_log, log_dict in zip(json_logs, log_dicts):
+        with open(json_log, 'r') as log_file:
+            for line in log_file:
+                log = json.loads(line.strip())
+                # skip lines without `epoch` field
+                if 'epoch' not in log:
+                    continue
+                epoch = log.pop('epoch')
+                if epoch not in log_dict:
+                    log_dict[epoch] = defaultdict(list)
+                for k, v in log.items():
+                    log_dict[epoch][k].append(v)
+    return log_dicts
+
+
+def main():
+    args = parse_args()
+    json_logs = args.json_logs
+    for json_log in json_logs:
+        assert json_log.endswith('.json')
+    log_dicts = load_json_logs(json_logs)
+    plot_curve(log_dicts, args)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()