# Why PMM User need Super privileges? **URL:** \ **Category:** Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)\ **Created:** [January 25, 2021, 3:40pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/why-pmm-user-need-super-privileges/8923 "2021-01-25T15:40:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mramirez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mramirez](https://forums.percona.com/u/mramirez)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 3:40pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/why-pmm-user-need-super-privileges/8923/1 "2021-01-25T15:40:09Z")
Hello, I’ve recently installed pm-server 2.12. But it requires SUPER privilege to pmm mysql user in Mysql Clients Server. This is not safe to grant SUPER privilege for à monitoring account. If PMM “not modified data” in database client, why is nessesary to grant this super privilege ? I saw that it’s nessesary to permits one more connection to those users (max\_connecitions server variable) . What are the others functionality not work if i revoke this privilege?. Thanks for your help best regards. ---
**Author:** ![matthewb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/matthewb/32/34_2.png) [@matthewb](https://forums.percona.com/u/matthewb)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2021, 1:43am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/why-pmm-user-need-super-privileges/8923/2 "2021-01-26T01:43:17Z")
Please see the answer here: > [@Super privileges for pmm user](https://forums.percona.com/t/super-privileges-for-pmm-user/6802/2): > > Hi PavelS, There are a couple of reasons we ask for SUPER privileges: With MySQL there is the concept of exhausting all available connections up to max\_connections server variable, however since 5.1 MySQL permits one more connection to those users with SUPER - the thinking here is that we still allow the monitoring application to log in and provide an understanding of what is going on within the server, in order to troubleshoot. Without this connection, you will be blind. Without SUPER we wil… ---
**Author:** ![matthewb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/matthewb/32/34_2.png) [@matthewb](https://forums.percona.com/u/matthewb)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2021, 1:43am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/why-pmm-user-need-super-privileges/8923/3 "2021-01-26T01:43:22Z")