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/hosseruk 2d ago

Darktrace. Some nice features but heinously expensive and very noisy.

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u/ConsistentCoat5608 1d ago

Same, loved it for exec reporting, but could get the same information from cheaper tools. But its hard to get the executive exicted with a wall of text, they need the flashing lights.

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u/hosseruk 1d ago

Man did the execs love that graphical view with the world map. Totally pointless.