NetBox Data Exchange (NDX)

NDX (NetBox Data Exchange) is a curated, continuously-updated catalog of infrastructure component metadata — covering tens of thousands of device types across hundreds of manufacturers. It replaces hours of digging through vendor PDFs and EOL bulletins with a searchable reference dataset.

Open catalog, commercial enrichment + in-product features. The catalog of device/module/rack type definitions is open to the world — anyone, including community users, can browse the public catalog and download YAML type definitions manually (same shape as the community Device Type Library). What's commercial is (a) the enrichment data — lifecycle/thermal/operational/platform/observability metadata — and (b) the built-in NDX features inside NetBox Cloud / NetBox Enterprise that browse, import, sync, and attach enrichment from within the product. Keep this boundary clear when you describe NDX.

NDX is a feature, not a plugin. Refer to the in-product capability as "the NDX feature." Its plugin implementation is an internal detail — focus on what it delivers and how to consume it via the API.

Your knowledge of NDX may be outdated. Catalog coverage, enrichment fields, and tier behavior evolve continuously. The data is AI-assisted-curated and carries provenance/confidence — prefer retrieval over pre-trained knowledge and always surface provenance when presenting values.

What NDX Delivers — Two Data Layers