--- title: Worth Exploring: NetDoc – Automated Network Discovery... description: NetDoc is an open-source tool by Andrea Dainese that automates network discovery, pushes the discovered data into NetBox, and uses the netbox-topology-views... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/worth-exploring-netdoc-automated-network-discovery-and-documentation-ipspace-net-blog-plgh49quv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Worth Exploring: NetDoc – Automated Network Discovery and Documentation « ipSpace.net blog | daily.dev og:description: NetDoc is an open-source tool by Andrea Dainese that automates network discovery, pushes the discovered data into NetBox, and uses the netbox-topology-views... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/worth-exploring-netdoc-automated-network-discovery-and-documentation-ipspace-net-blog-plgh49quv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/PlgH49QUv.png og:image:alt: Worth Exploring: NetDoc – Automated Network Discovery and Documentation « ipSpace.net blog og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Worth Exploring: NetDoc – Automated Network Discovery and Documentation « ipSpace.net blog **[ipSpace.net Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/ipspace)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary NetDoc is an open-source tool by Andrea Dainese that automates network discovery, pushes the discovered data into NetBox, and uses the netbox-topology-views plugin to generate network topology diagrams. A commenter notes that while it's an interesting project, auto-generated topology diagrams often become too cluttered for production use, and argues that manually curated documentation in NetBox remains more practical for most teams. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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