Thola is a new open source tool for identifying, reading and monitoring network devices. It serves as a unified interface for communication with devices from various manufacturers and features a check mode which complies with the monitoring plugins development guidelines. Therefore it is compatible with Nagios, Icinga, Zabbix, Checkmk, etc. One new focus of Thola is its integration into Ansible. It enables inventorying network devices regardless of their vendor or operating system. This talk will inform about the current state of development as well as planned features. You will learn how to use Thola to improve inventorying and monitoring your network.