Nautobot Network Utilities & Troubleshooting Tools

Faster troubleshooting. Better operational visibility. Built into your automation platform.

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Network Utilities & Show Tech

Availability Professional

Initial Release 2026-04-15

Latest Release 2026-04-15

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Overview

Modern network operations demand immediate visibility into system health and network connectivity to diagnose issues quickly and confidently.

Nautobot Professional extends the platform with built-in network utilities and troubleshooting capabilities. This enables engineers to investigate issues, from device-level checks to deep system diagnostics, directly within their Network Source of Truth, drastically reducing time to resolution and eliminating tool switching and context loss.

Challenge

Network outages and operational issues rarely stem from a single source. Diagnosing problems often requires jumping between tools, manually gathering data, and piecing together context across systems.

Common challenges include:

  • Limited visibility into real-time device connectivity
  • Fragmented troubleshooting workflows across multiple tools
  • Slow access to system-level diagnostics when Nautobot issues arise
  • Inconsistent or manual data collection during incident response
  • Increased mean time to resolution (MTTR) due to lack of centralized insight

Even in highly automated environments, troubleshooting often remains manual and reactive. Engineers lose valuable time switching between CLI sessions, monitoring tools, and application logs just to understand what’s happening.

Bottom line:
Without integrated troubleshooting and network utilities, even automated environments struggle to diagnose and resolve issues efficiently. This leads directly to increased Mean Time To Resolution (MTTR) and higher operational costs. 

Outcome

With integrated network tools and troubleshooting capabilities, teams move from reactive, fragmented workflows to streamlined, data-driven operations.

What improves:

  • Faster incident resolution and reduced MTTR
  • Centralized visibility across network and platform layers
  • Fewer context switches between tools
  • More consistent and repeatable troubleshooting processes
  • Improved collaboration with standardized diagnostic outputs

Benefits:

  • Diagnose issues directly from your source of truth
  • Reduce operational overhead and manual effort
  • Improve confidence in automation-driven environments
  • Enable scalable, repeatable troubleshooting workflows

Solution Detail

Nautobot Professional introduces integrated network tools and troubleshooting capabilities directly into the platform, enabling teams to diagnose both network and platform issues without leaving their operational workflow.

Network Utilities

Built-in network tools allow engineers to quickly validate connectivity and investigate device behavior in real time.

Key capabilities include:

  • Execute common diagnostics such as ping and traceroute
  • Perform device login and access validation
  • Query live device state to troubleshoot operational issues
  • Centralize connectivity testing within Nautobot

These tools eliminate the need to switch to external systems or manual CLI sessions, keeping troubleshooting aligned with your intended state and automation workflows.

Nautobot Show Tech Diagnostics

When issues arise within Nautobot itself, rapid access to system-level data is critical.

Nautobot Show Tech provides a comprehensive diagnostic snapshot of the platform, including:

  • System and environment details (OS, uptime, memory, disk usage)
  • Python and package versions
  • Nautobot application and job information
  • Server health and configuration data
  • Background job and service visibility

This structured output enables faster root cause analysis and simplifies escalation by providing all relevant data in a single, consistent format.

Unified Troubleshooting Workflow

By combining network diagnostics and platform-level visibility, Nautobot enables a more efficient troubleshooting process:

  1. Identify the issue within Nautobot workflows or dashboards
  2. Validate device connectivity using built-in network utilities
  3. Gather system diagnostics using Show Tech
  4. Analyze findings without leaving the platform
  5. Resolve issues with full operational context

This approach reduces friction, improves consistency, and ensures troubleshooting aligns with your broader NetDevOps practices.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Nautobot provides built-in utilities such as ping, traceroute, and device access validation to quickly test connectivity and investigate issues.

They significantly reduce the need for ad hoc CLI sessions. Engineers can perform the vast majority of common diagnostics directly in Nautobot, limiting CLI sessions to complex, deep-dive scenarios.

Show Tech collects system-level diagnostics including OS details, resource usage, installed packages, Nautobot configuration, and job/service data.

By centralizing diagnostics and eliminating tool switching, engineers can gather relevant data faster and make decisions more quickly.

Yes. They are designed to be used as part of day-to-day operations and during active troubleshooting scenarios.

Yes. Output is structured and consistent, making it easier to analyze and share with internal teams or support.

Yes. They allow real-time interaction for connectivity validation and troubleshooting.

These capabilities operate within Nautobot, ensuring troubleshooting aligns with your intended state, automation pipelines, and data models.

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