diff --git a/app/Http/Controllers/Admin/TelemetryController.php b/app/Http/Controllers/Admin/TelemetryController.php
index 7aa60cad8d..2b9163992b 100644
--- a/app/Http/Controllers/Admin/TelemetryController.php
+++ b/app/Http/Controllers/Admin/TelemetryController.php
@@ -101,7 +101,8 @@ class TelemetryController extends Controller
         app('view')->share('subTitleIcon', 'fa-eye');
         app('view')->share('subTitle', (string) trans('firefly.telemetry_admin_index'));
         $version = config('firefly.version');
-        $enabled = config('firefly.telemetry', false);
+        $enabled = config('firefly.send_telemetry', false) && config('firefly.feature_flags.telemetry');
+
         $count   = $this->repository->count();
 
         return view('admin.telemetry.index', compact('version', 'enabled', 'count'));
diff --git a/app/Support/Telemetry.php b/app/Support/Telemetry.php
index 905ca18233..cc9c3aacb6 100644
--- a/app/Support/Telemetry.php
+++ b/app/Support/Telemetry.php
@@ -22,7 +22,9 @@ declare(strict_types=1);
 
 namespace FireflyIII\Support;
 
+use Carbon\Carbon;
 use FireflyIII\Models\Telemetry as TelemetryModel;
+use JsonException;
 use Log;
 
 /**
@@ -65,6 +67,25 @@ class Telemetry
         }
     }
 
+    /**
+     * @param string $key
+     * @param string $value
+     * @param int    $days
+     */
+    public function recurring(string $key, string $value, int $days): void
+    {
+        if (false === config('firefly.send_telemetry') || false === config('firefly.feature_flags.telemetry')) {
+            // hard stop if not allowed to do telemetry.
+            // do nothing!
+            return;
+        }
+
+        $cutoffDate = Carbon::today()->subDays($days);
+        if (!$this->hasRecentEntry('recurring', $key, $value, $cutoffDate)) {
+            $this->storeEntry('recurring', $key, $value);
+        }
+    }
+
     /**
      * String telemetry stores a string value as a telemetry entry. Values could include:
      *
@@ -85,7 +106,6 @@ class Telemetry
         }
         Log::info(sprintf('Logged telemetry string "%s" with value "%s".', $name, $value));
 
-        // no storage backend yet, do nothing.
         $this->storeEntry('string', $name, $value);
     }
 
@@ -98,16 +118,49 @@ class Telemetry
      */
     private function hasEntry(string $type, string $key, string $value): bool
     {
+        try {
+            $jsonEncoded = json_encode($value, JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR, 512);
+        } catch (JsonException $e) {
+            Log::error(sprintf('JSON Exception encoding the following value: %s: %s', $value, $e->getMessage()));
+            $jsonEncoded = [];
+        }
+
         return TelemetryModel
                    ::where('type', $type)
                    ->where('key', $key)
-                   ->where('value', json_encode($value, JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR, 512))
+                   ->where('value', $jsonEncoded)
+                   ->count() > 0;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @param string $type
+     * @param string $key
+     * @param string $value
+     * @param Carbon $date
+     *
+     * @return bool
+     */
+    private function hasRecentEntry(string $type, string $key, string $value, Carbon $date): bool
+    {
+        try {
+            $jsonEncoded = json_encode($value, JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR, 512);
+        } catch (JsonException $e) {
+            Log::error(sprintf('JSON Exception encoding the following value: %s: %s', $value, $e->getMessage()));
+            $jsonEncoded = [];
+        }
+
+        return TelemetryModel
+                   ::where('type', $type)
+                   ->where('key', $key)
+                   ->where('created_at', '>=', $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s'))
+                   ->where('value', $jsonEncoded)
                    ->count() > 0;
     }
 
     /**
      * Store new entry in DB.
      *
+     * @param string $type
      * @param string $name
      * @param string $value
      */
@@ -123,4 +176,4 @@ class Telemetry
         );
     }
 
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/resources/lang/en_US/firefly.php b/resources/lang/en_US/firefly.php
index b659364402..7bb6ca162b 100644
--- a/resources/lang/en_US/firefly.php
+++ b/resources/lang/en_US/firefly.php
@@ -1624,6 +1624,7 @@ return [
     'not_yet_submitted'                  => 'Not yet submitted',
     'telemetry_type_feature'             => 'Feature flag',
     'telemetry_submit_all'               => 'Submit records',
+    'telemetry_type_recurring'           => 'Recurring',
     'telemetry_delete_submitted_records' => 'Delete submitted records',
     'telemetry_submission_executed'      => 'Records have been submitted. Check your log files for more info.',
     'telemetry_all_deleted'              => 'All telemetry records have been deleted.',