The MySQL Proxy is an application that communicates over the network using the MySQL network protocol and provides communication between one or more MySQL servers and one or more MySQL clients. In the most basic configuration, MySQL Proxy simply interposes itself between the server and clients, passing queries from the clients to the MySQL Server and returning the responses from the MySQL Server to the appropriate client.

Because MySQL Proxy uses the MySQL network protocol, it can be used without modification with any MySQL-compatible client that uses the protocol. This includes the mysql command-line client, any clients that uses the MySQL client libraries, and any connector that supports the MySQL network protocol.

In addition to the basic pass-through configuration, the MySQL Proxy is also capable of monitoring and altering the communication between the client and the server. Query interception enables you to add profiling, and interception of the exchanges is scriptable using the Lua scripting language.

By intercepting the queries from the client, the proxy can insert additional queries into the list of queries sent to the server, and remove the additional results when they are returned by the server. Using this functionality you can return the results from the original query to the client while adding informational statements to each query, for example, to monitor their execution time or progress, and separately log the results.

The proxy enables you to perform additional monitoring, filtering, or manipulation of queries without requiring you to make any modifications to the client and without the client even being aware that it is communicating with anything but a genuine MySQL server.

This documentation covers MySQL Proxy 0.8.0.