NetBox as the Inventory Engine for Monitoring
NetBox is well known as a source of truth for network documentation — but it can also be the live inventory backbone driving your monitoring stack. This talk shows how.
We’ll cover NetBox as the canonical source for devices and services, how Orb Agent and Diode keep that data current through automated discovery instead of manual upkeep, and how to pull inventory out via NetBox’s APIs and existing integrations (Prometheus SD, Zabbix, Icinga, Checkmk). We’ll close the loop with webhook-driven sync, so monitoring reflects reality in near real-time instead of the next batch job.
Live demo: orb-agent enriching NetFlow/IPFIX metrics with device and interface names pulled straight from NetBox, feeding a live Grafana dashboard.
If you’re running monitoring against a NetBox that’s drifting out of sync — or thinking about connecting the two — this talk gives you a working blueprint.
Speaker
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Chris BeyeNetBox LabsChris is a Sales Engineer at NetBox Labs and a network engineer at heart, with over a decade in IT. Based in Kraków, German by origin, he helps network and infrastructure teams solve documentation and automation challenges with NetBox Labs as their infrastructure intelligence platform. He has long believed automation is the key to working efficiently and eliminating errors during system changes, and Chris enjoys showing others how to put it into practice.