Hello NANOG! It is that time of year again, for the fourth year in a row -- it's time for everyone who operates a network to weigh in on the State of Network Automation survey. -- *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>* -- 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/NANOG95/5509/2025102... - 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. Thanks all! ~Chris