- NetBox Data Exchange (NDX): A database of infrastructure component metadata covering device logical characteristics, lifecycle dates, environmental data, and observability profiles across tens of thousands of device types.
- NetBox Asset Lifecycle: A procurement pipeline connecting network design to physical deployment through bills of materials, purchase orders, shipment tracking, and spares management against planned DCIM objects.
- NetBox Validation: Pre-change compliance and safety verification against regulatory frameworks and organizational policy, with self-correction capabilities for AI agents,
- NetBox Labs Platform MCP Server and Agent Skills: An enterprise-grade hosted MCP server that exposes the full platform to any MCP-compatible agent, alongside an open source library of agent skills.
“It is not at all uncommon for me to hop on with the VP of infrastructure in some large enterprise and hear, ‘I have 14 network observability tools right now. Help,’” Kris Beevers, CEO of NetBox Labs, told Network World. “Tool sprawl is the problem at the moment that is holding these teams back. So, we’re giving them a cohesive platform that they can consolidate against, that works well together, which is really driving velocity for us.”
A decade of NetBox
Beevers didn’t create the open-source NetBox project. He first encountered it while he was leading DNS platform provider NS1. “We kept finding NetBox at such a volume and frequency that it caused us to say, what is this thing? Why is it everywhere?” Beevers said.
NS1 hired the core open source contributors around 2020 and began building commercial tooling around the project. NetBox Cloud launched in 2021. Then IBM acquired NS1 in 2023, and NetBox Labs was spun out as an independent company in 2023, led by Beevers.
NetBox Labs has continued to expand both the open-source project as well as a growing set of commercial offerings. In the last several years, in particular, there has been a focus on helping to enable AI infrastructure buildout as well as providing AI-enabled tooling.
