diff --git a/cloudy_mozdef/packer/packer.json b/cloudy_mozdef/packer/packer.json
index b4771c721..41e345c5b 100644
--- a/cloudy_mozdef/packer/packer.json
+++ b/cloudy_mozdef/packer/packer.json
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
         "set -e",
         "sudo yum update -y",
         "sudo yum makecache fast",
-        "sudo yum install -y glibc-devel gcc libstdc++ libffi-devel zlib-devel make mysql-devel python python-devel python-pip git docker python3",
+        "sudo yum install -y glibc-devel gcc libstdc++ libffi-devel zlib-devel make python python-devel python-pip git docker python3",
         "sudo pip install virtualenv docker-compose",
         "sudo systemctl enable docker",
         "sudo systemctl start docker",
diff --git a/cron/vidyo2MozDef.conf b/cron/vidyo2MozDef.conf
deleted file mode 100644
index 3c41bb6cc..000000000
--- a/cron/vidyo2MozDef.conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-[options]
-hostname=<add_hostname>
-username=<add_username>
-password=<add_password>
-database=<add_database>
-url=http://localhost:8080/events
diff --git a/cron/vidyo2MozDef.py b/cron/vidyo2MozDef.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 6258e740d..000000000
--- a/cron/vidyo2MozDef.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,198 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
-
-# This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
-# License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
-# file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
-# Copyright (c) 2014 Mozilla Corporation
-
-import copy
-import os
-import sys
-import json
-import ConfigParser
-import socket
-import MySQLdb
-from requests import Session
-from optparse import OptionParser
-from datetime import datetime
-
-
-class MozDefError(Exception):
-    def __init__(self, msg):
-        self.msg = msg
-
-    def __str__(self):
-        return repr(self.msg)
-
-
-class MozDefEvent():
-    # create requests session to allow for keep alives
-    httpsession = Session()
-    # Turns off needless and repetitive .netrc check for creds
-    httpsession.trust_env = False
-    debug = False
-    verify_certificate = False
-    # Never fail (ie no unexcepted exceptions sent to user, such as server/network not responding)
-    fire_and_forget_mode = True
-    log = {}
-    log['timestamp'] = datetime.isoformat(datetime.now())
-    log['hostname'] = socket.getfqdn()
-    log['processid'] = os.getpid()
-    log['processname'] = sys.argv[0]
-    log['severity'] = 'INFO'
-    log['summary'] = None
-    log['category'] = 'event'
-    log['tags'] = list()
-    log['details'] = dict()
-
-    def __init__(self, url='http://localhost/events', summary=None, category='event', severity='INFO', tags=[], details={}):
-        self.summary = summary
-        self.category = category
-        self.severity = severity
-        self.tags = tags
-        self.details = details
-        self.url = url
-
-    def send(self, timestamp=None, summary=None, category=None, severity=None, tags=None, details=None, hostname=None):
-        log_msg = copy.copy(self.log)
-
-        if timestamp is None:
-            log_msg['timestamp'] = self.timestamp
-
-        else:
-            log_msg['timestamp'] = timestamp
-
-        if summary is None:
-            log_msg['summary'] = self.summary
-        else:
-            log_msg['summary'] = summary
-
-        if category is None:
-            log_msg['category'] = self.category
-        else:
-            log_msg['category'] = category
-
-        if severity is None:
-            log_msg['severity'] = self.severity
-        else:
-            log_msg['severity'] = severity
-
-        if tags is None:
-            log_msg['tags'] = self.tags
-        else:
-            log_msg['tags'] = tags
-
-        if details is None:
-            log_msg['details'] = self.details
-        else:
-            log_msg['details'] = details
-
-        if hostname is None:
-            log_msg['hostname'] = self.hostname
-        else:
-            log_msg['hostname'] = hostname
-
-        if type(log_msg['details']) != dict:
-            raise MozDefError('details must be a dict')
-        elif type(log_msg['tags']) != list:
-            raise MozDefError('tags must be a list')
-        elif summary is None:
-            raise MozDefError('Summary is a required field')
-
-        try:
-            self.httpsession.post(self.url, json.dumps(log_msg, encoding='utf-8'), verify=self.verify_certificate)
-
-        except Exception as e:
-            if not self.fire_and_forget_mode:
-                raise e
-
-
-def main():
-    '''
-    connect to vidyo's mysql, read in calls and write to mozdef
-    '''
-    mdEvent = MozDefEvent(options.url)
-    mdEvent.debug = True
-    mdEvent.fire_and_forget_mode = False
-
-    # connect to mysql
-    db=MySQLdb.connect(host=options.hostname, user=options.username,passwd=options.password,db=options.database)
-    c=db.cursor(MySQLdb.cursors.DictCursor)
-
-    c.execute("select * from ConferenceCall2 where JoinTime between NOW() - INTERVAL 30 MINUTE and NOW() or LeaveTime between NOW() - INTERVAL 30 MINUTE and NOW()")
-    rows=c.fetchall()
-    c.close()
-
-    # Build dictionary of calls in order to consolidate multiple rows for a single call
-    calls = {}
-    for row in rows:
-        id = row['UniqueCallID']
-        # Copy the row's info if we don't already have the final completed call state
-        if id not in calls or (id in calls and calls[id]['CallState'] != 'COMPLETED'):
-            calls[id] = row
-
-    # Massage call data and send to MozDef
-    for key in calls.keys():
-        call = calls[key]
-        if call['LeaveTime'] is not None:
-            duration = call['LeaveTime'] - call['JoinTime']
-            call['CallDuration'] = duration.seconds
-
-        # fix up the data for json
-        for k in call.keys():
-            # convert datetime objects to isoformat for json serialization
-            if isinstance(call[k], datetime):
-                call[k] = call[k].isoformat()
-            # make sure it's a string, not unicode forced into a string
-            if isinstance(call[k],str):
-                # db has unicode stored as string, so decode, then encode
-                call[k] = call[k].decode('utf-8','ignore').encode('ascii','ignore')
-
-        mdEvent.send(timestamp=call['JoinTime'],
-                     summary='Vidyo call status for ' + call['UniqueCallID'].encode('ascii', 'ignore'),
-                     tags=['vidyo'],
-                     details=call,
-                     category='vidyo',
-                     hostname=socket.gethostname()
-                     )
-
-
-def getConfig(optionname, thedefault, configfile):
-    """read an option from a config file or set a default
-       send 'thedefault' as the data class you want to get a string back
-       i.e. 'True' will return a string
-       True will return a bool
-       1 will return an int
-    """
-    retvalue = thedefault
-    opttype = type(thedefault)
-    if os.path.isfile(configfile):
-        config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
-        config.readfp(open(configfile))
-        if config.has_option('options', optionname):
-            if opttype == bool:
-                retvalue = config.getboolean('options', optionname)
-            elif opttype == int:
-                retvalue = config.getint('options', optionname)
-            elif opttype == float:
-                retvalue = config.getfloat('options', optionname)
-            else:
-                retvalue = config.get('options', optionname)
-    return retvalue
-
-
-def initConfig(configfile):
-    # default options
-    options.url = getConfig('url', 'http://localhost:8080/events', configfile)
-    options.username = getConfig('username', '', configfile)
-    options.password = getConfig('password', '', configfile)
-    options.database = getConfig('database', '', configfile)
-    options.hostname = getConfig('hostname', '', configfile)
-
-
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    parser = OptionParser()
-    parser.add_option("-c", dest='configfile', default=sys.argv[0].replace('.py', '.conf'), help="configuration file to use")
-    (options, args) = parser.parse_args()
-    initConfig(options.configfile)
-    main()
diff --git a/cron/vidyo2MozDef.sh b/cron/vidyo2MozDef.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 7de0c15ae..000000000
--- a/cron/vidyo2MozDef.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-# This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
-# License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
-# file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
-# Copyright (c) 2014 Mozilla Corporation
-
-source  /opt/mozdef/envs/python/bin/activate
-/opt/mozdef/envs/mozdef/cron/vidyo2MozDef.py -c /opt/mozdef/envs/mozdef/cron/vidyo2MozDef.conf
-
diff --git a/docker/compose/mozdef_base/Dockerfile b/docker/compose/mozdef_base/Dockerfile
index 0701a8d9e..7df5c5496 100644
--- a/docker/compose/mozdef_base/Dockerfile
+++ b/docker/compose/mozdef_base/Dockerfile
@@ -14,15 +14,14 @@ RUN \
                   libffi-devel \
                   zlib-devel \
                   libcurl-devel \
-                  openssl \ 
+                  openssl \
                   openssl-devel \
                   git \
                   make && \
   useradd -ms /bin/bash -d /opt/mozdef -m mozdef && \
   mkdir /opt/mozdef/envs && \
   cd /opt/mozdef && \
-  yum install -y mysql-devel \
-                    python \
+  yum install -y python \
                     python-devel \
                     python-pip && \
   yum clean all && \
diff --git a/docs/source/installation.rst b/docs/source/installation.rst
index 6f8d90574..ed202d6b3 100644
--- a/docs/source/installation.rst
+++ b/docs/source/installation.rst
@@ -70,11 +70,11 @@ We need to install a python2.7 virtualenv.
 
 On Yum-based systems::
 
-  sudo yum install make zlib-devel bzip2-devel openssl-devel ncurses-devel sqlite-devel readline-devel tk-devel pcre-devel gcc gcc-c++ mysql-devel
+  sudo yum install make zlib-devel bzip2-devel openssl-devel ncurses-devel sqlite-devel readline-devel tk-devel pcre-devel gcc gcc-c++
 
 On APT-based systems::
 
-  sudo apt-get install make zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev libssl-dev libncurses5-dev libsqlite3-dev libreadline-dev tk-dev libpcre3-dev libpcre++-dev build-essential g++ libmysqlclient-dev
+  sudo apt-get install make zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev libssl-dev libncurses5-dev libsqlite3-dev libreadline-dev tk-dev libpcre3-dev libpcre++-dev build-essential g++
 
 Then::
 
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 4c620ec12..7d7524374 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ kombu==4.1.0
 meld3==1.0.2
 mozdef-client==1.0.11
 mozdef-util==1.0.8
-MySQL-python==1.2.5
 netaddr==0.7.1
 nose==1.3.7
 oauth2client==1.4.12