# Network Device Telemetry Protocols with Dinesh Dutt

DevFeed: [Network Device Telemetry Protocols with Dinesh Dutt](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/network-device-telemetry-protocols-with-dinesh-dutt-11352.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ipspace.net/2026/03/network-device-telemetry-protocols/>)

Published: 2026-03-13T06:41:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [ipSpace.net blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ipspace-net-blog.md>)

Topics: [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/telemetry.md>), [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>), [NETCONF](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/netconf.md>), [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>)

Tags: [automation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/automation.md>), [netconf](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/netconf.md>), [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [podcast](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/podcast.md>), [software-gone-wild](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-gone-wild.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/telemetry.md>)

## AI overview

Episode 205 of Software Gone Wild discusses why network operators may use screen scraping instead of protocols such as NETCONF, gNMI, or protobufs. The conversation examines the gap between vendor recommendations and operational reality with Dinesh Dutt.

## Source excerpt

Whenever I'm ranting about vendors changing their data models or APIs with every other release, there is inevitably a vendor engineer chiming in, saying, "Life would be so much better if the customers wouldn't insist on doing screen scraping for the last 50 years." While some of that screen scraping is pure inertia, we sometimes have good reasons to do it rather than use protocols like NETCONF, gNMI, or protobufs. In Episode 205 of Software Gone Wild, I'm discussing some of those reasons and exploring the gap between vendor theory and reality with Dinesh Dutt, who is unlucky enough to have become the world's foremost expert on crappy network telemetry. Read more ...