NetBox Labs

““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.”

“This is the place with the least knee-jerk ‘blame the network’ reaction I’ve experienced.”

“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.”

“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.””

““The next step is to flip that around and start using NetBox to generate configs and push out changes. I’ve seen some great things with NetBox Discovery, Change Control, and Assurance, and I can’t wait to get my hands on those.””

““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.””

““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.””

“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.”

“The pain of maintaining NetBox, administrating it, upgrading scripts and plugins, that all took away from the important work of spinning up new infrastructure for our customers,” says Marcus Butler, engineering manager for network development at CoreWeave. “Now we can focus on building and managing infrastructure and leave NetBox to the experts.”

“We have dozens of data center builds this year alone. NetBox is crucial for accelerating our timelines, deploying a data center even a month sooner as a result of these efficiencies can directly impact our revenue.”

““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 housekeeping used to take us four hours a week, or 200 hours a year, which adds up pretty fast,””

““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 helps us avoid making bad choices,””

“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.””