2026 Gartner® Market Guide for Agentic NetOps Software
Understand how agentic NetOps software is redefining network operations, shifting network teams from manual, dashboard-driven workflows toward software-led planning, validation, and governed execution.
As networks grow more complex across multivendor, multidomain environments, operations teams face rising event volumes, staffing and skills constraints, and pressure to execute Day 2 operations faster and more reliably. Agentic NetOps software uses AI agents to plan, validate, and execute network operations tasks under defined governance, helping teams reduce reliance on manual investigation while maintaining operator oversight and control.
The 2026 Gartner® Market Guide for Agentic NetOps Software provides an independent view of how this early-stage market is evolving, including mandatory and optional product capabilities, adoption patterns, and pricing considerations. Selector is included in the report as a Representative Vendor in the agentic NetOps software market.
In the 2026 Gartner® Market Guide for Agentic NetOps Software, you’ll learn:
- How Gartner defines agentic NetOps software, and the mandatory and optional capabilities that distinguish it from network automation, AIOps, and AI assistant tools.
- Why infrastructure-independent agentic NetOps software delivers the most value in multivendor, multidomain environments, and where it's less compelling.
- How the market is evolving as network operations shift from GUI-driven dashboards toward software-led detection, investigation, planning, validation, and response coordination.
- Economic and pricing considerations, including how model inference and usage-based pricing affect total cost of ownership.
Gartner, Market Guide for Agentic NetOps Software, Mike Leibovitz, Andrew Lerner, Jonathan Forest, Tim Zimmerman, 19 May 2026.
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About Selector:
Selector is an AI-driven network operations platform built on full-stack observability and AIOps. Selector Foundry, its agentic NetOps layer, investigates incidents, acts inside defined guardrails, and proves the fix, giving operators one correlated view of the whole network path instead of fragmented tools and dashboards.Selector is an AI-driven network operations platform built on full-stack observability and AIOps. Selector Foundry, its agentic NetOps layer, investigates incidents, acts inside defined guardrails, and proves the fix, giving operators one correlated view of the whole network path instead of fragmented tools and dashboards.
Selector is included as a Representative Vendor in the 2026 Gartner® Market Guide for Agentic NetOps Software.
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