NetBox Labs has announced the upcoming launch of two new network observability products in the NetBox stack, NetBox Discovery and NetBox Assurance. Both products further deepen the value in the NetBox ecosystem and address critical challenges for network and infrastructure teams operating complex environments.
NetBox Discovery enables operators to gather and ingest network and infrastructure information into NetBox to rapidly document the IT footprint within NetBox’s model. The product seamlessly facilitates fast onboarding of infrastructure into NetBox, and accelerates the journey to intent-based automation with NetBox as the source of truth.
NetBox Assurance enables operators to identify, understand, and mitigate operational drift – deviations in the infrastructure from the intended state and configuration. With NetBox Assurance, teams can leverage NetBox’s source of truth alongside NetBox Discovery and other data sources to constantly identify, analyze, and report on drift across their infrastructure. The product provides the insights needed to establish remediation plans and quickly make decisions and take action on every deviation. NetBox Assurance speeds up troubleshooting, reduces outages, and unlocks the path to automation.
“NetBox is the world’s most popular network and infrastructure source of truth,” said Kris Beevers, CEO, NetBox Labs. “Network and infrastructure operations and automation are driven by data. Our goal with NetBox Discovery and NetBox Assurance is to enable IT teams to rapidly build the source of truth and eliminate operational drift by giving them powerful tools for finding, characterizing, and acting on deviations from intended configurations. We’ve worked closely with dozens of NetBox Labs customers and the NetBox community to solve discovery and assurance. These new products reshape the landscape by delivering a tightly integrated suite, alongside NetBox, for network and infrastructure operations, observability, automation, and security.”
Observing the operational state of your infrastructure is critical to modern intent-based automation where operational drift results in risks and failures. NetBox Discovery and NetBox Assurance provide critical tools to identify and manage drift, resulting in:
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Improved security and compliance – identify and address deviations from intent that break compliance policies and expose surface area for attacks against your network
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Accelerated automation – automate with confidence knowing that you have tools to quickly identify and remedy deviations caused by manual changes made by operators in error or during triage
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Complete observability – get a 360° view of your infrastructure, where drift is happening, how, and why
NetBox Discovery will be released as a public preview for use by the NetBox community later this year, with an initial focus on network and device discovery and wide coverage of common network infrastructure.
As NetBox Discovery observes the operational state of your infrastructure, it pushes its observations to NetBox Assurance, which detects deviations from NetBox. Finding deviations from intended configurations helps operators keep the network in check. NetBox Assurance goes further by providing powerful tools for managing overall operational drift. First, NetBox Assurance delivers detailed analytics on drift across your infrastructure, including tools for granular exploration of drift. This visibility enables teams to build plans, set goals, allocate resources, and adapt processes to eliminate causes of drift.
NetBox Discovery and NetBox Assurance are both slated for launch in the coming months, with many more details coming soon. Sign up for updates on the products and opportunities to get hands on, by visiting netboxlabs.com/netbox-
