The open-source IPAM & DCIM platform you actually own.
Danbyte tracks your IP space, your physical gear, and every cable between them — free and fully open source. Self-host it in an afternoon, or let us run a private instance for you.
- Self-host free forever
- No feature paywall
- Open-source license
One source of truth for addresses, hardware, and connectivity.
Danbyte is a NetBox-style IPAM and DCIM platform. It models your IP space, your physical hardware, and the cabling between them in one coherent schema — and it ships the models, never the data, so what's inside is only ever what you put there.
- IPAM
- Prefixes, VRFs, VLANs and IP ranges, with a tree and space map derived from your data.
- DCIM
- Devices, racks and power modelled as real hardware at physical scale.
- Connectivity
- Copper and fibre traced end to end, on a live topology canvas and floor plan.
Built on ideas most tools get wrong.
Three decisions shape everything else — and set Danbyte apart from the bloated, half-open alternatives.
- 01
Zero pre-filled data
Danbyte ships the models, never the data. No demo sites, no sample devices, no fixtures to unpick — you start from an empty, honest source of truth.
No fixturesClean slate - 02
Customizable to the core
Add custom fields to any object — including live references to other records — plus tags and field groups. Bend the schema to your world without forking the code.
Custom fieldsObject referencesTags - 03
Everything is in the open-source release
No paywalled modules, no locked features. Every capability on this site ships in the free, open-source release.
No enterprise tier
Address space you can see, plan, and trust.
Enter your prefixes once; Danbyte derives the containment tree per VRF, computes free space and utilization, and lets overlapping CIDRs coexist across VRFs — keyed by (tenant, vrf, cidr).
- Prefix tree derived per VRF
- Visual space map
- VLANs, VRFs & route targets
- IP ranges, RIRs, aggregates & ASNs
- FHRP groups & service templates
- Gateway autospawn
Your racks and gear, drawn as real hardware.
Millimetre-accurate rack elevations (Names, Images and Render modes, 10" to 23", PNG export), device faceplates that color ports by link state with live SNMP dots, a device catalog, virtual chassis, and a full power model.
- Rack elevations — Names / Images / Render
- 10" to 23", exportable to PNG
- Faceplates coloured by link state
- Live SNMP link-state dots
- Device catalog & virtual chassis
- Full power model
Trace any run end to end — through panels, PDUs, and fibre strands.
End-to-end cable tracing, fibre modelled to the individual strand (TIA-598-C, per-strand tracing), a live topology canvas with LLDP ghosts and saved views, and floor plans with live tiles, camera FOV and cable trays that export to a contractor pull sheet. Circuits, VPN and wireless included.
Governance that stands up to an audit.
In-app Tenant + VRF hard isolation, grant-based RBAC with site roles, MFA and LDAP, an automatic change log with field-by-field diffs, compliance rules, journals, and public share links.
- Tenant + VRF hard isolation
- Grant-based RBAC & site roles
- MFA + LDAP / AD
- Automatic change log with diffs
- Compliance rules with severity
- Journals & share links
Watch what's up. Discover what's really there. Never lose your source of truth.
Eight check types with prefix inheritance, alerts to Slack, Teams, Discord, PagerDuty and email, and SNMP that reads reality into a read-only observed layer with a drift inbox you reconcile on your terms — all air-gapped-capable.
- Eight check types
- Prefix-inherited monitoring
- Slack / Teams / Discord / PagerDuty / email
- SNMP observed-vs-intended
- Drift inbox & nmap sweep
- Runs fully air-gapped
The source of truth your automation already speaks.
A native Ansible dynamic inventory, config contexts with Jinja export templates, a config-drift runner for Ansible and Terraform, signed webhooks (HMAC-SHA512), and a lossless import/export round-trip.
- Ansible dynamic inventory
- Config contexts + Jinja templates
- Config-drift runner (Ansible / Terraform)
- Signed webhooks (HMAC-SHA512)
- Scoped API tokens
- Import / export round-trip
# Danbyte is a native Ansible dynamic inventory sourcecurl -H "Authorization: Token $DANBYTE_TOKEN" \ https://danbyte.example.net/api/inventory/ansible/And a great deal more — all in the open-source release.
A condensed index of what ships in Danbyte, by pillar. See the full features page for the detail.
IPAM
- Prefixes & derived tree
- Space map
- VLANs & VLAN groups
- VRFs & route targets
- IP ranges
- RIRs, aggregates & ASNs
- FHRP groups
- Service templates
- Gateway autospawn
- Search & MAC tracking
- User-defined statuses & roles
DCIM
- Device catalog
- Link-state faceplates
- Drag-drop faceplate builder
- Racks — Names / Images / Render
- Interfaces & virtual/aggregate interfaces
- Virtual chassis
- IP assignment
- Power model
- Object numbers & cable labels
Connectivity
- End-to-end cable tracing
- Fibre strands (TIA-598-C)
- LC-duplex & MPO
- Topology canvas
- Floor plans
- Cable trays → pull sheet
- Circuits & providers
- VPN tunnels & IPSec profiles
- Wireless SSIDs
Platform
- Tenant + VRF isolation
- Grant-based RBAC
- One-click site roles
- MFA + LDAP / AD
- Automatic change log & History
- Journals
- Compliance rules
- Custom fields & groups
- Tags
- Public share links
- Customizable dashboard
- Import / export
- Contacts, regions & locations
Discovery & Monitoring
- Eight check types
- Prefix inheritance
- Alert channels
- SNMP observed-vs-intended
- Drift inbox
- nmap sweep
- Silences & channels
- Air-gapped capable
Automation & Integrations
- Ansible dynamic inventory
- Config contexts
- Export templates (Jinja)
- Config-drift runner
- Deploy runs
- CF-driven playbook flags
- Signed webhooks
- Jobs queue
- Scoped API tokens
- Plugin hooks
Same software. Your call on who runs it.
Identical software. The rows below are the only differences.
| Capability | Self-hosted | Danbyte Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Software | The full open-source Danbyte | The exact same open-source Danbyte |
| Features | 100% — everything | 100% — identical, nothing extra or withheld |
| Price | Free, forever | Paid managed hosting (ops, not software) |
| Who runs it | You (your server / VM) | We do — a private instance just for you |
| Updates & upgrades | You apply them | We apply them for you |
| Backups | You configure them | Automated by us |
| Uptime & monitoring | Your responsibility | Managed, monitored uptime |
| TLS / domain | You set it up | Provisioned for you |
| Infra (Postgres, Redis, workers) | You provision & maintain | Fully managed |
| Your data | On your hardware | Your private instance; exportable anytime |
| Air-gapped / offline | Fully supported | N/A (hosted) |
| Lock-in | None | None — export and self-host anytime |
Every feature listed anywhere on this site is in both columns. Danbyte Cloud is managed hosting of the same free software.
There is no feature you unlock by choosing Cloud. You're paying for operations, not software.
Free, open source, and yours to run forever.
Danbyte is developed in the open, licensed for you to run, modify and extend. No account required, no phone-home, no expiring features.
Danbyte Cloud: your own private instance, run by us.
The same open-source Danbyte, hosted as a private instance that's yours alone. You get the software; we handle the operations.
What it is
- A private instance, provisioned just for you
- The exact same open-source Danbyte
- Updates, backups, uptime and TLS handled for you
- Your data, exportable anytime
What it isn't
- Not a different edition of the software
- Not a shared, multi-user deployment
- No extra features — nothing withheld from self-hosting
- No lock-in — export and self-host anytime
Start with the source of truth your network deserves.
Free and open source to self-host, or a private managed instance when you'd rather not. Either way, it's the same Danbyte.