--- a/toolkit/components/telemetry/Histograms.json
+++ b/toolkit/components/telemetry/Histograms.json
@@ -7108,16 +7108,36 @@
       "eRedirect",
       "abort",
       "timeout",
       "eTooLate",
       "eTerminated"
     ],
     "description": "Counts of the different ways sending a Telemetry ping can fail."
   },
+  "TELEMETRY_COUNT_FAILURE_TYPE" : {
+    "record_in_processes": ["main"],
+    "alert_emails": ["telemetry-client-dev@mozilla.com", "chutten@mozilla.com"],
+    "bug_numbers": [1438896],
+    "expires_in_version": "66",
+    "kind": "categorical",
+    "keyed": true,
+    "labels": [
+      "eOK",
+      "eRequest",
+      "eUnreachable",
+      "eChannelOpen",
+      "eRedirect",
+      "abort",
+      "timeout",
+      "eTooLate",
+      "eTerminated"
+    ],
+    "description": "Counts the number of occurrences of a particular failure type."
+  },
   "TELEMETRY_STRINGIFY" : {
     "record_in_processes": ["main"],
     "alert_emails": ["telemetry-client-dev@mozilla.com"],
     "expires_in_version": "never",
     "kind": "exponential",
     "high": 3000,
     "n_buckets": 10,
     "description": "Time to stringify telemetry object (ms)"