diff --git a/zuul.d/grenade.yaml b/zuul.d/grenade.yaml
index 0c35f846c39..956c21b9f37 100644
--- a/zuul.d/grenade.yaml
+++ b/zuul.d/grenade.yaml
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
     vars:
       grenade_devstack_localrc:
         shared:
+          MYSQL_GATHER_PERFORMANCE: false
           Q_AGENT: openvswitch
           Q_ML2_TENANT_NETWORK_TYPE: vxlan
           Q_ML2_PLUGIN_MECHANISM_DRIVERS: openvswitch
@@ -117,6 +118,7 @@
     vars:
       grenade_devstack_localrc:
         shared:
+          MYSQL_GATHER_PERFORMANCE: false
           Q_AGENT: openvswitch
           Q_ML2_TENANT_NETWORK_TYPE: vxlan
           Q_ML2_PLUGIN_MECHANISM_DRIVERS: openvswitch
@@ -278,6 +280,7 @@
           Q_BUILD_OVS_FROM_GIT: false
           OVN_BUILD_MODULES: false
         shared:
+          MYSQL_GATHER_PERFORMANCE: false
           Q_AGENT: ovn
           Q_ML2_PLUGIN_MECHANISM_DRIVERS: ovn,logger
           Q_ML2_TENANT_NETWORK_TYPE: geneve
diff --git a/zuul.d/rally.yaml b/zuul.d/rally.yaml
index 7b50302c611..b76a9e2f893 100644
--- a/zuul.d/rally.yaml
+++ b/zuul.d/rally.yaml
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
     timeout: 10800
     vars:
       devstack_localrc:
+        MYSQL_GATHER_PERFORMANCE: false
         USE_PYTHON3: true
         OSPROFILER_COLLECTOR: redis
         OSPROFILER_HMAC_KEYS: "neutron-hmac-key-used-in-zuul-ci"
@@ -162,6 +163,7 @@
         s-object: false
         s-proxy: false
       devstack_localrc:
+        MYSQL_GATHER_PERFORMANCE: false
         Q_AGENT: ovn
         ML2_L3_PLUGIN: ovn-router,trunk
         Q_ML2_PLUGIN_MECHANISM_DRIVERS: ovn,logger
diff --git a/zuul.d/tempest-multinode.yaml b/zuul.d/tempest-multinode.yaml
index d86914482a2..7f4396fc18d 100644
--- a/zuul.d/tempest-multinode.yaml
+++ b/zuul.d/tempest-multinode.yaml
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@
     vars:
       tox_envlist: integrated-network
       devstack_localrc:
+        MYSQL_GATHER_PERFORMANCE: false
         MYSQL_REDUCE_MEMORY: true
         CIRROS_VERSION: 0.6.1
         DEFAULT_IMAGE_NAME: cirros-0.6.1-x86_64-uec
@@ -206,6 +207,7 @@
     vars:
       tox_envlist: integrated-network
       devstack_localrc:
+        MYSQL_GATHER_PERFORMANCE: false
         MYSQL_REDUCE_MEMORY: true
         CIRROS_VERSION: 0.6.1
         DEFAULT_IMAGE_NAME: cirros-0.6.1-x86_64-uec
@@ -295,6 +297,7 @@
       devstack_plugins:
         neutron: https://opendev.org/openstack/neutron.git
       devstack_localrc:
+        MYSQL_GATHER_PERFORMANCE: false
         MYSQL_REDUCE_MEMORY: true
         CIRROS_VERSION: 0.6.1
         DEFAULT_IMAGE_NAME: cirros-0.6.1-x86_64-uec
@@ -424,6 +427,7 @@
             ovn:
               enable_distributed_floating_ip: True
       devstack_localrc:
+        MYSQL_GATHER_PERFORMANCE: false
         MYSQL_REDUCE_MEMORY: true
         CIRROS_VERSION: 0.6.1
         DEFAULT_IMAGE_NAME: cirros-0.6.1-x86_64-uec
@@ -568,6 +572,7 @@
         '{{ devstack_log_dir }}/ovsdb-server-nb.log': 'logs'
         '{{ devstack_log_dir }}/ovsdb-server-sb.log': 'logs'
       devstack_localrc:
+        MYSQL_GATHER_PERFORMANCE: false
         OVN_BUILD_FROM_SOURCE: True
         OVN_BRANCH: main
         # TODO(ykarel) move to master once OVN main branch is fixed to
diff --git a/zuul.d/tempest-singlenode.yaml b/zuul.d/tempest-singlenode.yaml
index 6c191e60b09..3e9ccb8aa21 100644
--- a/zuul.d/tempest-singlenode.yaml
+++ b/zuul.d/tempest-singlenode.yaml
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
     vars:
       tempest_concurrency: 4
       devstack_localrc:
+        MYSQL_GATHER_PERFORMANCE: false
         Q_ML2_TENANT_NETWORK_TYPE: vxlan
         MYSQL_REDUCE_MEMORY: true
       devstack_plugins:
@@ -52,6 +53,7 @@
     parent: neutron-tempest-base
     vars:
       devstack_localrc:
+        MYSQL_GATHER_PERFORMANCE: false
         Q_AGENT: openvswitch
         Q_ML2_PLUGIN_MECHANISM_DRIVERS: openvswitch
     irrelevant-files: &openvswitch-irrelevant-files
@@ -266,6 +268,7 @@
       - openstack/tempest
     vars:
       devstack_localrc:
+        MYSQL_GATHER_PERFORMANCE: false
         MYSQL_SERVICE_NAME: mariadb
         MYSQL_REDUCE_MEMORY: true
       devstack_plugins:
@@ -424,6 +427,7 @@
     timeout: 10800
     vars:
       devstack_localrc:
+        MYSQL_GATHER_PERFORMANCE: false
         # TODO(ykarel) can be enabled once
         # https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1912359 fixed
         NEUTRON_DEPLOY_MOD_WSGI: false
@@ -501,6 +505,7 @@
             DEFAULT:
               rpc_workers: 0
       devstack_localrc:
+        MYSQL_GATHER_PERFORMANCE: false
         MYSQL_REDUCE_MEMORY: true
         CIRROS_VERSION: 0.6.1
         DEFAULT_IMAGE_NAME: cirros-0.6.1-x86_64-uec
@@ -728,6 +733,7 @@
     vars:
       tox_envlist: integrated-network
       devstack_localrc:
+        MYSQL_GATHER_PERFORMANCE: false
         MYSQL_REDUCE_MEMORY: true
         CIRROS_VERSION: 0.6.1
         DEFAULT_IMAGE_NAME: cirros-0.6.1-x86_64-uec