SolarWinds Tracks Your Network & Infrastructure. NetBox Labs Runs It.
SolarWinds shows you what your network is doing right now. NetBox Labs gives your team, your automation, and your agents one open, intent-driven system of record they can trust.
NetBox is the world’s most widely adopted infrastructure data standard, trusted by 10,000+ organizations
Why teams are moving off SolarWinds?
IPAM and DCIM in one platform
SolarWinds IPAM is a point solution. NetBox Labs combines full IPAM and DCIM in a single platform, every device, rack, interface, IP, circuit, and connection in one system of record.
Automate against design, not drift
SolarWinds tracks operational state. NetBox Labs manages intended state, the validated model of how your network is designed to operate, continuously reconciled against reality.
Open, not locked in
SolarWinds routes automation through its own ecosystem. NetBox is API-first and open source, so it integrates natively with the tools your team already runs.
Built on trust, with AI
The NetBox open-source project is publicly auditable, with 20,000 GitHub stars and nearly 400 contributors. NetBox Labs adds SOC 2 Type II certification, dedicated support, SLAs, and AI-powered operations with NetBox Copilot, NetBox MCP Server, and dozens of open source Agent Skills.
Nutanix made NetBox the brain its automation runs on.
Creating a VLAN dropped to 90 seconds, isolating IPs during a security incident went from hours to seconds, and 92 percent of firewall policy changes now provision automatically.
Frequently asked questions
NetBox Labs is the system of record for your network and infrastructure, with discovery, assurance, and AI-powered operations. It is not a live monitoring tool, so most teams keep their monitoring and add NetBox underneath as the intended state it reads from.
It is phased and low risk. NetBox Discovery populates the record automatically, and you run in parallel with SolarWinds, so there is no monitoring blackout while you switch.
Yes. The open-source core is the most widely adopted in its category, and NetBox Labs adds SOC 2 Type II certification, dedicated support, and SLAs through NetBox Cloud and NetBox Enterprise.
No. The NetBox data model is open source and portable, with documented REST and GraphQL APIs, so your data stays yours.
Yes. DCIM and IPAM are built in, so it covers the network and infrastructure, including racks, power, cabling, and circuits.
Ready to move on from SolarWinds?
We will map what you use in SolarWinds today and show you the phased path to a trusted, intent-driven system of record your automation and AI can build on.
