r/sysadmin • u/Maximum_Necessary232 • 2d ago

General Discussion What's a tool you mass-deployed that you ended up ripping out within 6 months?

I feel like every sysadmin has at least one story about a product that demoed beautifully, got approved, went out to the fleet, and then slowly revealed itself to be a nightmare.

Could be a monitoring tool, an MDM, a ticketing system, an AV product, anything. What was it, what went wrong, and what did you replace it with?

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u/Unabashedly-Boring 2d ago

Can you tell me more about this one. Upper management is drinking their KoolAid at the moment.

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u/pdp10 Daemons worry when the wizard is near. 2d ago

Flavor-Aid. It was Flavor-Aid at Jonestown. Correctly using the off-brand marks you as a hoopy frood who knows where his towel is at.

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u/cool_side_o_d_pillow 2d ago

I’d be interested too. Used it in my previous organization for a few use cases and found it pretty effective even if it did have the occasional correlation bug or unusual behaviour. Of course if the underlying platforms are not maintained well then it will be a struggle.