There are some possibilities for tracking usage of 2FA. We can possibly add an event to track it in Wikimedia Events. This could reflect in a grafana dashboard that we can update to include the new statistics.
We are now working with Product Analytics to ensure that we get instrumentation on 2FA as we roll out authentication improvements
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | Mstyles | T399666 Instrumenting 2FA usage | |||
| Resolved | Catrope | T410475 Add 2FA information to account_conversion schema |
@kostajh mentioned that we could also consider an event logging collection since there is a low volume of events
It's not just that it's a low volume of events, but that using event logging allows us to then understand much more clearly who (in terms of user groups, bucketed edit counts, account age, etc) is making use of the feature.
Do you want to track enables / disables or just the number of people who have enabled it? The first would probably have to be done via an event stream, the second via a Prometheus exporter.
Note that we can make use of the default product metrics base schema for this.
@Mstyles as a next step, I'd suggest creating a measurement plan and instrumentation spec together with @nettrom_WMF.