How are you all handling network documentation in 2024? Looking for real workflows that actually stick

I have been thinking a lot about network documentation lately and honestly it feels like one of those things everyone agrees is important but nobody actually has a great system for. I work in a midsized enterprise environment and we have a mix of Visio diagrams that are two years out of date, some spreadsheets that three different people have edited with no version control, and a wiki that maybe two people actually update.

I have looked at tools like NetBox for IPAM and inventory, draw.io for diagrams, and some commercial options like Auvik or SolarWinds. The tooling seems fine but the real problem is process and buyin from the team.

My questions: what tools are you actually using day to day, how do you keep documentation from going stale, and have you found any workflows that make updating docs feel less like a chore that gets skipped when things get busy?

Also curious whether anyone has had success tying documentation updates into change management so it becomes automatic rather than optional. We use ServiceNow for ticketing but have not really integrated it well with our network docs.

Would love to hear what has worked and what has failed. Practical experience over vendor pitch decks any day.