NetBox Copilot Is Now Generally Available

Today we’re announcing the general availability of NetBox Copilot, our interactive AI agent for exploring, managing, and automating network and infrastructure operations – all through natural language, embedded directly in NetBox.

If you’ve been following along, you know this has been a journey. We introduced Copilot last summer, opened a public preview in October, and have been shipping improvements every week since. Today, Copilot moves from preview to production-ready – with new capabilities built directly from what we’ve learned working alongside hundreds of organizations over the past several months.

What We Learned from You

Since opening the preview, more than 200 organizations across 25+ countries have used NetBox Copilot. The feedback has been invaluable, and honestly, surprising in ways we didn’t anticipate.

We expected engineers to use Copilot for device lookups and IP address management – and they do. But we also saw teams using Copilot to build entire Ansible playbooks, generate API automation scripts, trace complex cable paths across multi-site environments, and validate data quality across thousands of devices. One pattern that emerged early and kept growing: Copilot as the go-to tool for auditing infrastructure completeness. “Which devices are missing management IPs?” “What racks don’t have documented power feeds?” These kinds of questions – tedious to answer manually – take seconds with Copilot.

Perhaps the most unexpected discovery: users are interacting with NetBox Copilot in more than a dozen languages. Engineers in Spain, Japan, Brazil, Korea, Germany, and elsewhere are querying their infrastructure in their native language and getting accurate, contextual results. We didn’t specifically build for this – it’s a natural benefit of modern LLMs – but it validated something important. Natural language really is the right interface for infrastructure operations, and it works across linguistic boundaries we hadn’t fully considered.

To everyone who participated in the preview, shared feedback, reported rough edges, and pushed us to make NetBox Copilot better: thank you. This GA release is shaped by your real-world usage, and we’re grateful.

What’s New at GA

NetBox Copilot’s core capabilities – natural language queries across your entire NetBox data model, context-aware conversations, documentation search, and automation support – are available to everyone, across all NetBox editions, with a generous free tier.

For NetBox Cloud and NetBox Enterprise customers, GA brings several major additions we’ve been building based on direct enterprise feedback:

Write operations. Copilot can now create, update, and delete objects in NetBox – with a human-in-the-loop approval workflow for every change. You see exactly what Copilot proposes before anything is modified, and every action respects your existing RBAC permissions and is logged under your username. This is where Copilot moves from answering questions to automating real work.

Enterprise data governance. Bring your own model access through Anthropic API keys or AWS Bedrock. Configure data retention policies. Choose processing regions for data sovereignty requirements. For organizations with the strictest requirements, Private Copilot enables fully on-premises deployment within NetBox Enterprise – your data never leaves your infrastructure.

Coming shortly: improved administration and credit management. We’re putting the finishing touches on better visibility into usage across your organization, with controls that make it straightforward for IT leaders to manage Copilot adoption across their teams. Expect this in the coming weeks.

These features didn’t come from a product roadmap in a vacuum. They came from conversations with enterprise customers who told us exactly what they needed before they could trust an AI agent in production. We listened, and we built accordingly.

The Pace of Change

Here’s the thing about building an AI-powered product right now: the ground is shifting under everyone’s feet – in the best way. The LLMs powering NetBox Copilot are getting meaningfully better every few months. That means Copilot’s accuracy, reasoning, and ability to handle complex multi-step queries improves not just from our own engineering work, but from the rapid advancement of the underlying models. We ship improvements weekly, and the capabilities compound.

Network and infrastructure teams are entering what I think of as an agentic automation era. DevOps and cloud teams went through a similar transformation over the past decade, building sophisticated automation toolchains that accelerated their work dramatically. Infrastructure and network teams – facing enormous complexity and traditionally less comfortable with software development – have largely trailed in automation. That’s changing now. Natural language is the interface that finally makes sense for these teams, and agentic AI tools like NetBox Copilot are how they’ll close the automation gap.

NetBox at the Center of Infrastructure AI

We’ve been saying this for a while, but it’s becoming more tangible every month: NetBox is a living semantic map of your infrastructure – a structured knowledge graph of devices, connections, addresses, sites, circuits, and the relationships between them. That context is exactly what AI agents need to be trustworthy and useful in production.

At NetBox Labs, we’re building on this foundation across three dimensions. The NetBox MCP Server connects any AI agent or development tool to NetBox’s structured context – it’s open source, and the community is already building impressive things with it. NetBox Copilot delivers interactive, agentic AI operations directly inside NetBox, accessible to everyone. And we’re investing in autonomous agentic workflows that will take this further – much more to come on that later this year.

The common thread: agents grounded in authoritative, structured infrastructure data deliver results you can actually trust. Generic AI bolted onto infrastructure tools can’t match the depth and accuracy that comes from native understanding of NetBox’s comprehensive data model and its context about your environment.

Try NetBox Copilot Today

Looking to accelerate past clickops, automate analysis of your infrastructure, quickly answer key questions, or get NetBox guidance from Copilot’s built-in expertise? NetBox Copilot is available to everyone in the NetBox community for free, with generous free usage included. Need more? Upgrade to our Plus plan for $25/month – with the ability to add more credits any time – right from your Copilot settings in the app.

Enable Copilot using the quickstart: https://netboxlabs.com/docs/copilot/quickstart/

Want a walkthrough, deeper dive, or access to our exclusive features for NetBox Cloud and NetBox Enterprise customers? Get in touch.

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