Announcing New Features for the NetBox ServiceNow CMDB and Workflow Integrations
We’re excited to announce the latest release of the NetBox ServiceNow CMDB and Workflow Integrations, packed with new capabilities designed to enhance usability, connectivity, and reliability. Whether you’re streamlining IT operations, improving data accuracy, or optimizing workflows, this update brings significant improvements to the integration experience. NetBox and ServiceNow: Natural Alignment for Enterprises In mid...
NetBox Assurance: Private Preview Now Available
Quickly Find and Fix Operational Drift Building and maintaining an accurate, reliable source of truth is critical to network operations – but it’s also a moving target. Configuration drift, unintended changes, and discrepancies between intended and actual network states introduce risk, complexity, and operational inefficiencies. Today, NetBox Labs is excited to take the next step...
NetBox Service Mappings – Tech Preview: Design-Driven Automation Comes to NetBox
As we hinted in our AutoCon2 recap blog post, connecting design to topology is a big theme for network practitioners right now. While working with our NetBox Service Provider Working Group at the end of 2024, a recurring request was the ability to map arbitrary relationships between NetBox objects—think “What does this application or service...
Understanding Network Requirements
Think of your network as a busy city with roads (bandwidth), traffic signals (latency), and even guards at the gates (firewalls). Just as urban designers try to predict traffic volume and build relevant facilities, so too is it essential to understand your network requirements and adequately prepare for security and efficiency. In this post, we’ll...
Upgrade NetBox with Confidence with NetBox AI Upgrade Risk Analysis
Just last week we announced that NetBox AI is coming in 2025, with a host of new features powered by rapidly evolving AI models and NetBox Labs data, starting with the NetBox AI Enrichment API. Today we’re excited to announce another new feature, available today in preview for NetBox Cloud customers: NetBox AI Upgrade Risk...
How to Automate Proxmox Virtual Machine Configuration with NetBox and Ansible AWX/Tower/Automation Platform (AAP)
As I wrote in Part 1 of this Series, NetBox is the world’s most popular Network Source of Truth (NSoT) with tens of thousands of installations globally. I also discussed the importance of Proxmox in the ecosystem of freely available virtualization technologies alongside the criticality of documenting desired states of virtual machines (VMs) to correspond...
NetBox AI is Coming – Announcing the NetBox AI Enrichment API
Enrich any data intelligently with context from NetBox’s data model As the capabilities of modern AI rapidly evolve, we’ve been busy at NetBox Labs experimenting with new ways to incorporate AI into the workflows of network and infrastructure teams to empower engineers and accelerate their work. This year, NetBox AI is coming. The data in...
NetBox Helm Charts 5.0 Is Now Available
Originally created by Chris Boot in 2019, the NetBox Helm chart has evolved significantly since its inception and is now used by hundreds of organizations across the world to run NetBox on Kubernetes. In 2024 we released NetBox Enterprise which leans on the NetBox Helm Chart and has led to significant collaboration between the initial...
NetBox 4.2 Is Now Generally Available
A few weeks ago, we introduced the NetBox 4.2 beta release, which brought a range of significant updates tailored to both service providers and broader network management needs. Today, we are excited to announce that NetBox 4.2 is now generally available! As always, the feedback and contributions from our vibrant community have been invaluable. Your...
NetBox Discovery – Quickstart Guide
The purpose of this quickstart is to get you up and running with NetBox Discovery as quickly as possible. In a few commands you will install and pre-configure everything you need to start experimenting: You will be able to run simple scripts to use both features of NetBox Discovery: Network Discovery and Device Discover Tip...