Re: 2025 State of Network Automation Survey - Requesting Your Participation

[Chris Grundemann via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

Tl;dr: If you have enable on a production network, we need YOU to respond
(no automation experience required):
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/StateOfNetworkAutomation_2025


The 2025 State of Network Automation Survey closes in two short weeks!
*Deadline
to respond is noon MDT (GMT-0600) on Monday, 6 September.*

This survey is for anyone who operates a network; meaning you have edit
('enable') access to switches, routers, firewalls, or optical transport
equipment on a production network, or you lead a team that does.

All experience levels welcome! Even if you have zero automation experience,
your response is valuable. Those with more advanced automation will see
additional questions.

All responses are anonymous, and only aggregate data will be published by
the Network Automation Forum.

If you already took this year's survey - please consider sharing the survey
link with others to help ensure the widest possible reach.

Thanks!
~Chris


PS - We have had an amazing response, with almost 400 respondents (382 as
of right now); after you complete the survey you will instantly see how all
those others responded. And the more responses we get, the more useful and
powerful the final results will be for all of us.

PPS - The NANOG PC has scheduled the survey results readout for NANOG 95 on
Tuesday after lunch: https://nanog.org/events/nanog-95/agenda/



On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM Chris Grundemann <cgrundemann () gmail com>
wrote:

> Hey all! It's that time of year again... Survey time.
>
> The 2025 State of Network Automation Survey is open!!!
>
> No automation experience required - please share with everyone who has
> edit access on a production network, regardless of how automated that
> network might be.
>
> https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/StateOfNetworkAutomation_2025
>
> For consistency, and ability to track trends, most of the questions are
> word-for-word repeats from prior years surveys. This year I deleted a few
> questions that don't seem relevant anymore, and I made a few questions
> optional, rather than required, in hopes of MANY more responses -- I also
> built in some logic, so that *folks who have ZERO network automation
> experience / deployment can still answer the survey easily*, in hopes of
> more accurate data collection.
>
> There are also some new questions, all suggested by the Network Automation
> Forum community.
>
> Finally, you will notice that we (now with NAF backing) moved off of the
> free Google form to a much sleeker SurveyMonkey survey. w00t
>
> Again - we invite anyone and everyone with enable on a production network
> to complete the survey, and we hope that everyone here will share the
> survey in other foraa as well - mailing lists, newsletters, social media,
> discord, slack, reddit, etc, etc.
>
> Survey results have been submitted as a talk for NANOG 95 in October. And
> will be available publically one way or another before the end of the year.
>
> Thanks!
> ~Chris

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