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  When leadership at one of the world’s largest publicly traded oil and gas companies asked how a single engineer had documented 30 remote oil field sites for a divestment handoff in 30 minutes — a process that used to take two weeks — the answer was straightforward: NetBrain. But that moment was just one data point in a much bigger story.For the company’s unconventional energy division, the headline achievement is this: zero change-related network outages over a sustained twelve-month period — across a network of 800+ sites, most of them unmanned and scattered across remote locations. No incidents triggered by a f

Regulatory resilience is not handled by one control, one report, or one team. For financial IT and network operations, it requires ongoing monitoring, testing, documentation, and evidence that is ready for review.DORA’s five ICT resilience pillars create ongoing operational requirements across ICT risk management, incident reporting, resilience testing, third-party oversight, and information sharing.NetBrain helps teams turn these requirements into repeatable workflows that support continuous visibility, current evidence, and audit-ready documentation.Here’s how NetBrain supports each area:ICT Risk ManagementNetBrain auto-discovers ICT assets across hybrid environments and continuously validates configurations against your intended design.ICT Incident ReportingDeep Diagnosis captures diagnostic actions in real time, with timestamped evidence that can be connected to your ITSM workflow.Dig

Managing CVEs across a complex network is not exactly anyone’s idea of a relaxing afternoon. Between configuration reviews, security requirements, best practices, and multi-vendor environments, it can be difficult to know what is actually exposed and what needs attention first. 🔍In this customer story, a Principal Architect and Consulting Engineer share how NetBrain helps teams support CVE management through configuration analysis, security intents, and compliance validation.With NetBrain, teams can use built-in network intents, security checks, and a rich library of common vulnerabilities to analyze configurations and identify risks that may be difficult to catch manually. NetBrain can parse device configurations, compare them against best practices, and help teams uncover potential issues before they become bigger problems.They also highlight NetBrain’s ability to support multi-vendor environme

Most network teams rely on a mix of monitoring, ITSM, IPAM, CMDB, and other tools to keep operations running. The challenge is that those tools often work in silos, leaving engineers to jump between systems just to understand what happened, where it happened, and what to do next.This article breaks down how to close that gap by connecting tools, unifying network data, and orchestrating diagnostics and resolution workflows across the toolchain.From Splunk, ServiceNow, Infoblox, Netbox, Datadog, ThousandEyes, Jira, and custom API integrations, NetBrain helps turn disconnected alerts and data into coordinated network automation.Less tool-hopping. More context. Faster action.Read the article: https://www.netbrain.com/blog/get-network-tools-to-work-together/

 NetBrain Customer Success StoryZero Change-Related Outages.Twelve Months. 800+ Sites. One Small Team.How a Global Energy Supermajor’s Network Team transformed network operations — and kept the lights on through it all When leadership at one of the world’s largest publicly traded oil and gas companies asked how a single engineer had documented 30 remote oil field sites for a divestment handoff in 30 minutes — a process that used to take two weeks — the answer was straightforward: NetBrain. But that moment was just one data point in a much bigger story.For the company’s unconventional energy division, the headline achievement is this: zero change-related network outages over a sustained twelve-month period — across a network of 800+ sites, mos

One of the biggest opportunities in network automation is connecting the intelligence from the tools your team already uses, then bringing that data into one place where it can be analyzed, correlated, and acted on faster.As David Mann, NetBrain’s Global VP of Services, explains, NetBrain can serve as the layer between your ITSM platform, like ServiceNow, and your NMS or other network management tools. That means information from multiple systems can flow into NetBrain, where it can be mapped, analyzed, and used to support faster root cause identification.With intent-based automation, triggered workflows, AI-driven analysis, and API integrations across different vendors, teams can correlate real-time data from multiple sources and drive quicker resolution. NetBrain can also support automated ticket generation, helping teams move from insight to action faster.  👉 Explore essential i

DORA is raising the bar for financial IT teams. It is no longer enough to have policies in place. Teams need to prove operational resilience with current, accurate, and exportable network evidence.For financial services organizations, that means evidence needs to reflect the live network, not a snapshot from the last audit cycle. This can get tricky when configuration drift happens between reviews, incident records are pulled together after the fact, or hybrid and third-party environments create visibility gaps.According to Deloitte’s European DORA survey, only 25% of surveyed financial entities feel compliant with ICT risk management. For many teams, the bigger challenge is not the policy itself. It is whether live operational evidence matches the documented control environment.NetBrain helps financial IT

NetBrain 12.3 introduces AI Runbook Companion — built to eliminate one of the most frustrating parts of troubleshooting: figuring out what the data actually means and what to do next.Instead of digging through CLI outputs and piecing things together manually, Runbook Companion works inside your runbooks to summarize results, highlight issues, and recommend next steps in real time.Why It Matters Cuts analysis time with clear, AI-generated summaries Recommends next actions based on best-practice automations Keeps engineers in control while removing the busywork Helps junior engineers move faster with guided workflows

Network operations rarely live in a single tool. Real networks behave more like ecosystems than neat little silos. Hardware teams track racks and power, network teams chase packets, and operations teams want dashboards that tell the truth without requiring a PhD in routing tables.That’s the reality NetBrain is built for.At NetBrain LIVE 2025, one of our engineers showed how NetBrain integrates with NetBox and Grafana—not to replace them, but to connect them. The demo showed how NetBrain can pull physical infrastructure data from NetBox, enrich it with real-time network intelligence, and expose that combined view through Grafana dashboards.The architecture is s

Modern networks support cloud, remote users, security controls, and critical apps — all at once. Managing that device by device? That’s where drift, outages, and risk creep in.Intent-Based Networking (IBN) changes the model.Instead of configuring individual devices, teams define what the network should achieve — performance goals, security rules, compliance standards. The system translates that intent into policies, automates deployment, and continuously verifies that the network behaves as expected.It’s not just automation. It’s automation with validation.Why It MattersIBN helps teams: Move faster without increasing risk Reduce downtime through continuous verification Enforce security consistently Improve application performance As networks grow more complex, manual operations don’t scale. Intent-based networking provides a closed-loop approach that keeps busin

Most environments rely on a stack of monitoring tools, ticketing systems, and security platforms. When these systems work together with NetBrain, workflows become significantly faster and smoother.This week, we want to hear which integrations have helped you the most—ServiceNow, monitoring platforms, SIEM tools, cloud systems, or custom API triggers. These examples help other members connect the dots and spark ideas for streamlining their own workflows.If you want to explore integration paths, here’s the best place to start:Platform Integrations: https://www.netbrain.com/platform/Share the integration(s) that made the biggest operational impact for you.All participants will receive the Exchange Badge for contributing to this QOTW.

A new year is the perfect excuse to strengthen your playbook. This week’s question is all about your goals for improving network operations, automation, or visibility in 2026. Maybe you want to build more preventive runbooks, tighten your change management checks, reduce manual verification steps, or rely more on dynamic mapping.This conversation helps the entire community set a tone for the year and surfaces the kinds of content, training, and discussions that will be most valuable in the months ahead.If you’re planning your 2026 workflow improvements, here’s a great resource starting point:NetBrain Resource Hub: https://www.netbrain.com/resources/Drop your goal—big or small—and let’s start the year with a smarter, stronger community.All participants will receive the Exchange Badge for contributing to this QOTW.

As 2025 comes to a close, it’s a good moment to pause and look back on the year at NetBrain.This year was shaped by the people behind the platform — our customers, partners, and NetBrainers — who showed up with ideas, questions, feedback, and real-world use cases. Together, those moments added up to steady progress across how teams think about network visibility, automation, and resilience.Thank you for the trust and the collaboration throughout the year. From conversations and events to shared wins and lessons learned, the community played a big role in where NetBrain is today.Watch our 2025 recap to revisit some of the moments that defined the year. As we head into 2026, we’re carrying that momentum forward and staying focused on what matters most: #Prev