Show detailed user statistics like query counts and connection duration.
AI agents call mysql_user_statistics to retrieve information from Mysql without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries and displays aggregated user statistics from MySQL's performance schema or similar system tables. It retrieves information about past activity (query counts, connection duration) without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. The verb 'show' and the read-only nature of statistics reporting confirm this is a Read operation.
From the tool's definition Tool shows 'user statistics like query counts and connection duration' — retrieves and displays data with no modification or execution capabilities.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access mysql_user_statistics gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Mysql, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for mysql_user_statistics:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"mysql_user_statistics": {}
}
}mysql_user_statistics is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Show detailed user statistics like query counts and connection duration. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Mysql MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Mysql MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for mysql_user_statistics: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Mysql. Nothing to install.
mysql_user_statistics is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the mysql_user_statistics rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for mysql_user_statistics. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
mysql_user_statistics is provided by the Mysql MCP server (mukul975/mysql-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Mysql, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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