Announcing General Availability of the Cisco Meraki Integration for NetBox Enterprise and NetBox Cloud

We’re thrilled to announce that the NetBox integration with Cisco Meraki has reached General Availability! After a successful Customer Preview phase where we gathered invaluable feedback from customers deploying the integration in their environments, we’re now ready to make this powerful integration available to all NetBox Cloud and NetBox Enterprise customers with NetBox Assurance.

Why This Integration Matters

Cisco Meraki is the industry-leading cloud-managed platform for wireless, switching, and security appliance infrastructure, providing centralized management and visibility across distributed deployments. For organizations managing Meraki infrastructure, maintaining synchronization between NetBox and the Meraki Dashboard has traditionally required time-consuming manual processes or fragile homegrown scripts.

Many teams use NetBox as their source of truth for infrastructure inventory and documentation, while Cisco Meraki handles real-time device provisioning, configuration management, and monitoring. Without an automated connection, teams face data inconsistencies, increased error rates, and operational delays. Our integration eliminates these pain points by automatically discovering and synchronizing your Meraki infrastructure into NetBox.

What Gets Synchronized

The Cisco Meraki integration provides comprehensive data synchronization across your cloud-managed infrastructure:

• Organizations and Networks: Meraki organization structure and network hierarchy
• Device Types: Comprehensive device model information
• Devices: Complete inventory of Meraki appliances, switches, and wireless access points
• Interfaces and Ports: Network interface configurations and port details
• IP Addresses: Network addressing information for devices
• VLANs: Virtual LAN configurations
• Wireless Networks: Wireless SSID and network configurations

This automated synchronization ensures your NetBox instance remains current with your actual Meraki infrastructure, eliminating manual data entry and reducing documentation drift. Data synchronization runs on a schedule you configure based on your environment’s needs.

Key Benefits

Automated Inventory Synchronization – Eliminates manual data entry by syncing organizations, networks, devices, interfaces, IP addresses, VLANs, and wireless networks on your defined schedule, ensuring NetBox reflects the actual state of your Meraki deployment.

Intelligent Drift Detection with NetBox Assurance – NetBox Assurance provides intelligent deviation management and safe data ingestion. When changes occur in your Meraki environment, you gain visibility into what’s changed, can identify unexpected deviations from your intended state, and maintain control over data quality through validation, anomaly flagging, and reconciliation workflows.

Unified Visibility – Brings Meraki data into the same platform used for network inventory, IPAM, and data center modeling, providing a single place to see relationships between cloud-managed infrastructure and your broader network resources.

Reliable Automation – Accurate Meraki data in NetBox powers automated provisioning, policy enforcement, config generation, and capacity workflows, making automation far more reliable when powered by trusted data.

Reduced Operational Risk – Automatically updated infrastructure data ensures accurate documentation for audits, security reviews, and governance frameworks, resulting in easier compliance reporting and reduced risk from outdated information.

Faster Incident Response – Quickly map devices to networks, interfaces, and IPs; correlate issues across your cloud-managed infrastructure; and speed up time-to-resolution during incidents.

“The NetBox integration for Meraki, with its discovery and assurance features, is crucial for automation because it helps find and remediate deviations between your Source of Truth and your network.” Steven Carter, Principal Solutions Engineer, Cisco Systems

Integration Architecture

The Cisco Meraki integration is built using the NetBox Labs controller integrations framework, which provides:

• Standardized Integration Pattern: Consistent approach across all controller integrations
• NetBox Assurance Integration: Built-in support for safe data ingestion and deviation management with NetBox Assurance, ensuring data quality and integrity
• Agent-Based Architecture: Runs as part of the NetBox Discovery agent ecosystem using the Orb Agent Pro image, enabling deployment in multiple network locations
• Secure Authentication: OAuth2 client credentials for secure communication with NetBox, plus Vault integrations for managing Cisco Meraki secrets
• Comprehensive Object Mapping: Detailed mapping of organizations, networks, sites, devices, interfaces, IP addresses, VLANs, and wireless networks

Getting Started

With today’s general availability, it’s easy to get started integrating your NetBox Enterprise or NetBox Cloud instances with your Cisco Meraki deployment. The Cisco Meraki integration is included with the Pro and Premium tiers of NetBox Assurance.

To get started:

1. Contact your NetBox Labs account team or reach out to customer support at support@netboxlabs.com
2. We’ll help you get the integration enabled and guide you through a successful implementation
3. We’ll work closely with you to ensure ongoing operational success between the two platforms

For technical documentation and detailed object mapping information, visit our Cisco Meraki integration documentation.

This supported integration between NetBox and Cisco Meraki is only available to NetBox Labs customers. If you’re using NetBox Community edition and Cisco Meraki today and want to explore this integration, please use our contact form to learn more about NetBox Cloud and NetBox Enterprise.