NetBox Integration with Lightyear.ai Now Available in Customer Preview
We’re excited to announce that the NetBox integration with Lightyear.ai has been rebuilt using our modern controller integrations framework and is now entering Customer Preview! This represents a significant evolution from the previous Custom Script based implementation, bringing enhanced capabilities and streamlined deployment to existing NetBox Cloud and NetBox Enterprise customers.
As organizations increasingly rely on NetBox as their Network Source of Truth, the need for automated synchronization with critical operational data continues to grow. Our rebuilt Lightyear.ai integration eliminates manual circuit management workflows and ensures your network service inventory remains accurate and current.
What is Customer Preview?
Customer Preview opens this integration to existing NetBox Cloud and NetBox Enterprise customers who are ready to evaluate and deploy it in their staging or test environments. The Lightyear.ai integration requires NetBox Assurance, which we can enable on a trial basis for customers seeking to evaluate the integration. This phase allows us to gather real-world feedback from diverse network architectures and use cases while continuing to refine and enhance the integration based on your needs.
Why This Integration Matters
Lightyear.ai is an automated telecom & network procurement platform that helps organizations source, purchase, and manage network services including internet connectivity, SD-WAN, MPLS, and other telecommunications circuits. For network operations teams, maintaining accurate circuit inventory in NetBox while managing those same circuits in Lightyear.ai has traditionally meant duplicate data entry and the constant risk of documentation drift.
Many organizations use NetBox as their authoritative source for network infrastructure documentation, including circuit inventory, while Lightyear.ai serves as the operational platform for procurement and service lifecycle management. Without automated synchronization, teams struggle with outdated circuit information, billing discrepancies, and operational inefficiencies. Our integration solves these challenges by automatically discovering and synchronizing your circuit data from Lightyear.ai into NetBox.
What Gets Synchronized
The integration provides comprehensive synchronization of your network services data:
- Circuit Types: Automatically creates and manages circuit types based on service categories
- Providers: Synchronizes telecommunications provider information
- Provider Accounts: Links circuits to specific provider account numbers
- Circuits: Complete circuit inventory including service IDs, status, and metadata
- Circuit Lifecycle Data: Installation dates, termination dates, and current service status
- Cost Information: Service pricing and billing details
This automated synchronization ensures your NetBox circuit inventory accurately reflects your active services managed in Lightyear.ai, eliminating manual updates and reducing the risk of outdated documentation.
Key Features
The Lightyear.ai integration is built on the NetBox Labs controller integrations framework and includes:
- Automated Discovery: Continuously discovers and synchronizes circuits, providers, and service types from Lightyear.ai without manual intervention
- Real-time Data Synchronization: Keeps your NetBox data current with Lightyear.ai service inventory changes
- Comprehensive Object Mapping: Detailed mapping of circuit types, providers, provider accounts, circuits, and associated metadata including costs and lifecycle dates
- NetBox Assurance Integration: Leverages NetBox Assurance for safe data ingestion and deviation management, ensuring data quality and integrity
- Secure Authentication: OAuth2 client credentials for secure communication with NetBox, plus Vault integrations for managing Lightyear.ai API credentials
- Agent-Based Architecture: Runs as part of the NetBox Discovery agent ecosystem using the Orb Agent Pro image, enabling flexible deployment options
Join the Customer Preview
If you are a NetBox Labs customer and use Lightyear.ai for network service procurement and management, we invite you to participate in the Customer Preview.
To join, please contact NetBox Labs support at support@netboxlabs.com with your organization’s name and any specific requirements.
Not a current NetBox Labs customer? Please use our contact form to learn more about NetBox Cloud and NetBox Enterprise.
