Batfish Reviews in 2026

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IT departments looking for a network configuration analysis tool to find errors and ensure the correctness of configurations

About Batfish

An open source network configuration analysis tool. Batfish finds errors and guarantees the correctness of planned or current network configurations. It enables safe and rapid network evolution, without the fear of outages or security breaches. Batfish was originally developed by researchers at Microsoft Research, UCLA, and USC. Many others have since contributed to it. It is currently maintained by Intentionet, who also offers Batfish Enterprise, a service that extends and enhances the core capabilities of Batfish. Analyze ACLs and firewalls rules using Batfish. Forwarding paths can be analyzed using traceroute and reachability queries. Analyze the impact of failures on the network and conduct Chaos Monkey style testing. Analyze routing tables computed by Batfish. Fast control plane analysis using an abstract representation. Network analysis in multivendor network with Cisco, Arista, Cumulus.

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