Plugins Support Journaling?

[mr1716]

In the plug-in development, I see that they don’t support journaling. Are there plans to change that or a way that I could custom write the support for my instance?

[pheus]

Hi @mr1716,

Journaling is supported for plugin models. You don’t need to add any custom implementation for it.

If your model subclasses netbox.models.NetBoxModel, journaling is already enabled by default (via JournalingMixin, which provides the journal_entries relation). If you’re not subclassing NetBoxModel, you can also opt in by inheriting from JournalingMixin directly.

One common “gotcha” is UI exposure: the feature can be present on the model, but you won’t see the Journal tab unless your model’s detail view/URLs are registered using the standard mechanisms (e.g. including the model URLs via get_model_urls() / view registration).

Also, just a heads-up: the link you shared points to the Markdown source in the GitHub repo. The rendered plugin docs are here:
https://netboxlabs.com/docs/netbox/plugins/development/models/

Hope that helps!