diff --git a/browser/base/content/browser.js b/browser/base/content/browser.js
index 39e3b23cbf95..333a12ec5fa7 100755
--- a/browser/base/content/browser.js
+++ b/browser/base/content/browser.js
@@ -7411,6 +7411,23 @@ var gIdentityHandler = {
       SitePermissions.remove(gBrowser.currentURI, aPermission.id);
       this._permissionJustRemoved = true;
       this.updatePermissionHint();
+
+      // Set telemetry values for clearing a permission
+      let histogram = Services.telemetry.getKeyedHistogramById("WEB_PERMISSION_CLEARED");
+
+      let permissionType = 0;
+      if (aPermission.state == SitePermissions.ALLOW) {
+        // 1 : clear permanently allowed permission
+        permissionType = 1;
+      } else if (aPermission.state == SitePermissions.BLOCK) {
+        // 2 : clear permanently blocked permission
+        permissionType = 2;
+      }
+      // 3 : TODO clear temporary allowed permission
+      // 4 : TODO clear temporary blocked permission
+
+      histogram.add("(all)", permissionType);
+      histogram.add(aPermission.id, permissionType);
     });
 
     container.appendChild(img);
diff --git a/toolkit/components/telemetry/Histograms.json b/toolkit/components/telemetry/Histograms.json
index f5d4c0482f3c..2345241fe16f 100644
--- a/toolkit/components/telemetry/Histograms.json
+++ b/toolkit/components/telemetry/Histograms.json
@@ -10203,5 +10203,14 @@
     "bug_numbers": [1296606],
     "kind": "count",
     "description": "Number of named profiles."
+  },
+  "WEB_PERMISSION_CLEARED": {
+    "alert_emails": ["firefox-dev@mozilla.org"],
+    "bug_numbers": [1286118],
+    "expires_in_version": "55",
+    "kind": "enumerated",
+    "keyed": true,
+    "n_values": 6,
+    "description": "Number of revoke actions on permissions in the control center, keyed by permission id. Values represent the permission type that was revoked. (0=unknown, 1=permanently allowed, 2=permanently blocked, 3=temporarily allowed, 4=temporarily blocked)"
   }
 }