diff --git a/browser/components/BrowserGlue.jsm b/browser/components/BrowserGlue.jsm
index e36fdd7fa6fa..fb612b8857a6 100644
--- a/browser/components/BrowserGlue.jsm
+++ b/browser/components/BrowserGlue.jsm
@@ -1691,8 +1691,14 @@ BrowserGlue.prototype = {
   },
 
   _updateAutoplayPref() {
-    let blocked = Services.prefs.getIntPref("media.autoplay.default", 1);
-    Services.telemetry.scalarSet("media.autoplay_default_blocked", blocked);
+    const blocked = Services.prefs.getIntPref("media.autoplay.default", 1);
+    const telemetry = Services.telemetry.getHistogramById(
+      "AUTOPLAY_DEFAULT_SETTING_CHANGE"
+    );
+    const labels = { 0: "allow", 1: "blockAudible", 5: "blockAll" };
+    if (blocked in labels) {
+      telemetry.add(labels[blocked]);
+    }
   },
 
   _setPrefExpectations() {
diff --git a/toolkit/components/telemetry/Histograms.json b/toolkit/components/telemetry/Histograms.json
index ec064609b9fb..0f97bb5a90a6 100644
--- a/toolkit/components/telemetry/Histograms.json
+++ b/toolkit/components/telemetry/Histograms.json
@@ -15360,6 +15360,20 @@
     "description": "How long the AudioContext would become audible since it was created, time unit is seconds.",
     "releaseChannelCollection": "opt-out"
   },
+  "AUTOPLAY_DEFAULT_SETTING_CHANGE": {
+    "record_in_processes": ["main", "content"],
+    "products": ["firefox", "fennec", "geckoview"],
+    "alert_emails": [
+      "alwu@mozilla.com",
+      "nohlmeier@mozilla.com"
+    ],
+    "expires_in_version": "74",
+    "kind": "categorical",
+    "labels": ["allow", "blockAudible", "blockAll"],
+    "bug_numbers": [1567302],
+    "description": "counts the number of times a user changed the default autoplay behavior to each setting during a subsession.",
+    "releaseChannelCollection": "opt-out"
+  },
   "WEB_AUDIO_AUTOPLAY": {
     "record_in_processes": ["main", "content"],
     "products": ["firefox", "fennec", "geckoview"],