NetBox Customization and Integration
NetBox Cloud offers robust mechanisms for custom NetBox integrations to extend built-in NetBox functionality to suit your specific needs.
Use NetBox Cloud integrations for
Custom fields
Extend native data models with your own custom attributes
Custom validation
Enforce your own rules around the creation and modification of NetBox objects
Export templates
Leverage Jinja2 templating to export NetBox data in any format
Custom scripts
Add your own Python scripts to automate common tasks
Reports
Custom reports can be used to audit your data or report metrics
Custom links
Easily cross-reference NetBox objects with records in other tools
Plugins
Extend NetBox by adding your own object types, views, and API endpoints
Overlays and Virtualization and Services, oh my!
NetBox Cloud is also an ideal location to record regions of the network that can be typically overlooked and under-documented.
Overlays
Create a record for your L2VPNs, their type, and their termination point
Virtualization
Keep track of your VM deployment, regardless of on-prem or the cloud
Services
Make a link between any device, physical or virtual, and the service it offers
The Power of NetBox Data Correlation
With NetBox Cloud as the source of truth for your network, and the capacity for any kind of NetBox integration, your previously disjointed data gets linked in ways that were near impossible in the past. Answers to complex questions become as simple as point and click.
- What VLANs and subnets are assigned to this site and what are they used for?
- How are my supernets divided up and where do I have free space?
- At what site, room, rack, and position is this router mounted?
- Who do I call about this application running on this VM?
- What circuits exist at this site, what devices do they connect to, what IPs do they feed, and who do I call when there is an issue?
