Visualize and manage physical network infrastructure directly from your source of truth
The Nautobot Floor Plan App provides an interactive visualization layer for your network infrastructure. Instead of maintaining static diagrams or disconnected spreadsheets, teams can model and visualize rack layouts, floor spaces, and infrastructure relationships directly inside Nautobot. The application dynamically links physical locations, racks, and devices to Nautobot’s data model, allowing engineers to explore infrastructure visually while maintaining alignment with the network source of truth.
Many organizations maintain floor plans, rack layouts, and site diagrams across multiple tools and formats. These artifacts are often:
The result is a disconnect between what documentation shows and what actually exists in production.
When teams attempt to perform planning, capacity management, or troubleshooting, they often rely on outdated information. This creates operational friction and increases the risk of errors during deployments or infrastructure changes.
Traditional DCIM and documentation tools often fall short by:
Bottom line
If physical infrastructure documentation is disconnected from your automation platform, it cannot reliably support planning, automation, or operational decision-making.
The Nautobot Floor Plan App provides a visual interface for modeling and exploring the physical layout of infrastructure within Nautobot. Instead of maintaining external diagrams, teams can create floor layouts directly in the platform and link them to the devices, racks, and relationships already modeled in the Nautobot data model.
Because the application operates within Nautobot, it inherits the platform’s extensibility, API access, and automation capabilities.
The result is a dynamic and centrally managed representation of your physical infrastructure.
The Floor Plan App allows teams to represent data center or facility layouts using a flexible grid-based interface.
Engineers can visually model:
Each element within the floor plan is linked to Nautobot objects, enabling quick navigation from the visual layout to detailed infrastructure data.
This creates a unified view where physical topology and logical network data coexist in the same system.
One of the key advantages of the Floor Plan App is its ability to expose relationships between infrastructure components.
From the floor plan view, users can:
This allows engineers to quickly understand how physical infrastructure aligns with the network source of truth.
Rack tiles provide a visual representation of infrastructure elements within the grid. Each tile can surface key operational information, including:
These tiles are designed for fast visual interpretation, enabling engineers to absorb key information at a glance.
Infrastructure environments vary widely in size and complexity. The Floor Plan App accommodates this through a scalable grid-based architecture.
Capabilities include:
This allows organizations to maintain a consistent modeling approach regardless of facility size.
Not all infrastructure elements occupy a single rack location. Some areas represent zones, equipment clusters, or specialized infrastructure.
The Floor Plan App supports multi-tile objects, enabling teams to represent:
This allows floor plans to accurately represent real-world infrastructure layouts.
To support different environments and operational workflows, the application allows customization of grid and tile characteristics.
Key capabilities include:
For example, teams can visually identify:
These visual cues make it easier to understand infrastructure layouts at a glance.
When the Nautobot Floor Plan App is integrated into your automation platform, teams gain a dynamic visualization of their infrastructure that stays aligned with operational data.
Instead of relying on static diagrams, the floor plan becomes an extension of the network source of truth.
Operational improvements include:
Benefits
Bring infrastructure visualization into your network source of truth
The Nautobot Floor Plan App bridges the gap between physical infrastructure and network automation. Visualize your facilities, explore relationships between infrastructure objects, and manage floor layouts directly inside Nautobot.
The Nautobot Floor Plan App is a Nautobot extension that allows teams to visualize and model physical infrastructure layouts such as rack placements and facility floor plans directly within the Nautobot platform.
The application uses Nautobot’s data model to link floor plan elements to existing objects such as locations, racks, and devices. This allows users to navigate directly from the floor plan to detailed infrastructure records.
Yes. The application uses a scalable grid-based design with zoom and navigation controls, allowing teams to model environments ranging from small facilities to large data centers.
Rack tiles are visual elements representing racks within the floor plan grid. They display key information such as rack name, orientation, utilization, and operational status.
Yes. Multi-tile objects allow teams to represent larger equipment areas, reserved spaces, or infrastructure zones within the floor plan.
Yes. Grid dimensions, tile sizes, and status colors can be customized to match the operational requirements of different environments.
Because the application operates within Nautobot, it can participate in the broader network automation ecosystem. Data exposed through Nautobot APIs can be used in automation pipelines and operational workflows.
Yes. Like many Nautobot applications, the Floor Plan App is open source and designed to be extensible through Nautobot’s plugin architecture.
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