Connection pool anomaly detection mechanism

Techniques and structures to prevent exhaustion of a database connection pool, including retrieving data from the database connection pool, monitoring the data to determine whether the connection pool is at risk of an exhaustion condition, analyzing the data to determine whether one or more clients accessing the database connection pool are offenders upon determining that the connection pool is at risk and throttling access to the one or more clients accessing the database connection pool upon determining the one or more clients to be offenders.