Closing Soon - The 2026 State of Network Automation Survey

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

Hello NANOG!

It is that time of year again, for the fourth year in a row -- it's the
last chance for everyone who operates a network to participate in the State
of Network Automation survey. Survey closes next Friday (16 October).

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*TL;DR: If you operate a production network, please take the 2026 State of
Network Automation survey:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/StateOfNetworkAutomation2026
<https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/StateOfNetworkAutomation2026>*
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More info:

This survey focuses on tracking industry trends and adoption patterns over
time.

There is no automation experience required to take the survey. We want to
know if the network you work on has 0 automation just as much as we want to
know if it has a bunch.

We do want respondents (or their tools) to have enable/edit/write access to
a production network. This is a survey for network operators. If you do not
currently operate a network, you can help by sharing the survey with
friends/family/colleagues who do!

For consistency, almost all of the questions are exactly the same as last
year -- this allows accurate trend tracking.

You can view results from last year's survey here (as presented at NANOG
95):
 - Slides:
https://storage.googleapis.com/site-media-prod/meetings/NANOG95/5509/20251025_Grundemann_The_2025_State_v1.pdf

 - Video: https://youtu.be/kYBRG0UdC_Y

The results of this year's survey will also be presented and shared for
free to the global network operations community.

All responses are anonymous, and only aggregate data will be published.

Thank you!
~Chris

PS - Please feel free to share the survey wherever network operators
gather. Let's beat last year's record participation numbers and make the
data better for all!
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