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v1.0 Release Notes

This document describes all new features and changes in the release 1.0. The format is based on Keep a Changelog and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Release Overview

This is the initial release of the Nautobot Tools App that contains:

  • Insights – Provides reports on your Nautobot data, including inventory, compliance, security, and more.
  • Network Tools – Integrates connectivity testing tools such as ping, traceroute, DNS, and SSH.
  • Troubleshooting Tools – Provides comprehensive troubleshooting outputs and system diagnostics.

v1.0.0 (2026-04-15)

Added

Insights

Provides dashboards and reports on your Nautobot data. The following dashboards are included:

  • Inventory Insights – Device, circuit, location, manufacturer, and provider counts.
  • Device Insights – Charts showing devices broken down by location, status, manufacturer, role, and tenant.
  • Job Insights – 24-hour job success rates and counts, plus 30-day job status trends broken down by grouping and name.
  • Configuration Compliance Insights – Traditional Config Compliance view from Golden Config centralized with your other Insights.
  • Golden Configuration Insights – Golden config job stats, config plan statuses (completed/pending approval by type), and backup/intended/compliance status charts.
  • Hardware & Software Lifecycle Insights – HW/SW end-of-life milestone counts, CVE exposure, and charts for hardware status, software status, inventory item status, and CVE severity.

Network Tools

Network Tools are integrated into the Device view, enabling you to run diagnostics directly within a device record. Available Nautobot Jobs include live network diagnostics such as TCP ping, ICMP ping, traceroute, DNS lookup, HTTP requests, and SSH verification.

Troubleshooting Tools

Tools for diagnosing and evaluating your Nautobot environment. Includes Nautobot Jobs and management commands (e.g. nautobot-server health_check) for active instances, plus a standalone nautobot_troubleshooting CLI for subprocess-based checks when a Nautobot instance is unavailable.

The following root-level checks are included:

  • System Information – date, hostname, uname_a, os-release, host_uptime, disk_space, meminfo, lscpu, pwd, whoami, dns, alias
  • Python/Pip – python_version, pip_version, pip_freeze, which_python, which_pip
  • Available Tools – available_commands
  • Nautobot Server – nautobot_server_version, nautobot_server_health_check, nautobot_server_apps, nautobot_server_jobs, nautobot_server_counts, nautobot_server_django_settings, ansible_version