NetBox Labs

“One of the driving principles was deciding what data to move to NetBox,”

“We flipped the automation so that NetBox drives the configuration on our devices. Now if you want to change an IP address on an interface, you change it in NetBox and run the automation.”

“We needed something that could get data from NetBox and actually configure our Juniper devices,”

“It seemed like a great tool – streets ahead of any IPAM system or data center inventory system I’d used before, and it combined both functionalities. I was instantly sold.”

“We have colleagues across teams who contribute to and benefit from our NetBox implementation. Team members interested in networking can help out even when the core network team isn't available.”

“"Using NetBox is much more efficient and it speeds up our engineering time. So if we're deploying a new device, all we really have to do is plug it in, give it an IP address and then we discover it into NetBox."”

“"Eliminating the administrative overhead, while gaining support and the enhanced feature set, it just made sense to use NetBox Cloud as our strategic tool for automation."”

“NetBox Cloud gives us all of that bandwidth back, so we can spend it on actually administering our network – which is significantly more valuable.”

“Once you have a trusted source of truth that is accessible via an API, people will start to consume the data in a manner that you could have never predicted or planned for. I think this is the ultimate validation for what we built.”

“Our crawlers are like having an extra team member who never sleeps, never complains, and has perfect memory,” says Pearce. “They handle the tedious part of keeping our inventory accurate, so we can work on things that actually move the needle for the business.”

“NetBox doesn’t automate — it enables automation,” explains Trajkovic.”

“Before, preparing for budget season meant weeks of data gathering,” says Trajkovic. “Now we run a report and have the information in minutes. It’s like going from the Stone Age to the Information Age in one leap.”

“It's like NetBox is the brain, and our automation scripts are the hands. The brain knows exactly what's going on, and the hands can work precisely because of that knowledge.”

“I’m happy with how things are going so far and they seem to be getting even better every day.”

“We have a sophisticated automation system that constantly monitors different aspects of the network. NetBox serves as our source of truth for comparing what's observed with what's intended.”

“It’s a good day! I just found out that we can use sub-modules and Interface templates that reference both the parent and child modules. This product continues to amaze me!”

“Documentation is the primary goal right now. We want to know where everything is so that we can appropriately plan for making changes. We have regulatory requirements for documentation and NetBox makes it easy to check that box.”

“We were able to leverage NetBox to plan an entire core network migration and we can now say that ALL physical connections to our core network are documented from end-to-end," Jake enthusiastically explains. "That project has really highlighted just how valuable NetBox is to our operations.”

“A majority of the work in each datacenter was completed within a 3-hour timeframe," Herioux proudly notes. "None of that would have been possible without the extensive planning we did in NetBox to proactively plan out every single connection in advance.”

“NetBox Cloud gives us automated backups with easier restore. NetBox Labs upgrades our instance for us and keeps basic plugins up to date,” Windt explains. “All of this work used to consume 20% of our time. NetBox Cloud gives us all of that bandwidth back, so we can spend it on actually administering our network – which is significantly more valuable.”

“NetBox housekeeping used to take us four hours a week, or 200 hours a year, which adds up pretty fast,” Windt says. “Now that NetBox Labs is managing our instance, I get more than a month’s worth of time back from an engineer who can now do something that actually adds value, rather than doing housekeeping.”

“NetBox helps us avoid making bad choices,” says Bryan Ward, lead infrastructure engineer at Dartmouth. “It can ensure that you don’t have the same IP address assigned to more than one device. It can make sure you don’t have more than one cable trying to be plugged into the same ethernet port, or you’re trying to assign a VLAN from one building to another.”

“One of the big reasons we chose NetBox initially was that it’s an API-first tool, which makes it really easy to integrate it with any of your other tooling. Your time is spent on work that actually matters.”

“NetBox Cloud gives us automated backups with easier restore. NetBox Labs upgrades our instance for us and keeps basic plugins up to date. All of this work used to consume 20% of our time. NetBox Cloud gives us all of that bandwidth back, so we can spend it on actually administering our network –which is significantly more valuable.””

““We’re excited about new features that improve our ability to reconcile infrastructure drift and expand automation further,” said one of the engineers. “NetBox continues to evolve alongside our growing needs.””